“Unquestionably Legitimate” and Day v. Henry: Will the Supreme Court Finally Clarify Retailer Direct-to-Consumer Shipping After Tennessee Wine?
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Category: Direct Shipping
Ninth Circuit’s Amended Wine Shipping Opinion: Discrimination? Irrelevant.
Earlier this year, we wrote that the Ninth Circuit’s original decision in Day v....
Maryland’s Direct Beer Shipping Case Puts Granholm-Type Manufacturer Issue on Trial
A Manufacturer’s Fight, Not a Retailer’s On August 4, 2025, the U.S. District Court...
Seventh Circuit Uncorks Dual Rationales in Chicago Wine v. Braun, Affirms State’s Direct Shipping Ban
A Decision Long in the Cellar On August 5, 2025—nearly four years after oral...
Ohio’s Wine Shipping Battle: Block v. Canepa – A Final Blow in the District Court
Another federal court has weighed in on the ongoing war over direct-to-consumer wine shipping,...
The 9th Circuit’s Decision in Day v. Henry: Another Step in the Developing Dormant Commerce Clause and 21st Amendment Jurisprudence
If you’ve been following along with dormant Commerce Clause litigation in the alcohol space,...
Case involving alcohol law allowing in-state distilleries shipping direct to citizens and prohibiting out-of-state distilleries from doing the same allowed to proceed after direct comparison to Granholm.
In a classic Granholm v. Heald situation involving a lack of parity between in-state...
6th Circuit hears oral argument in Ohio wine shipping case. Questions regarding implementing an out-of-state license and the evidentiary basis for factual assertions regarding public health and safety justifications for shipping prohibitions predominate.
The appeal results from a challenge in Ohio. An out-of-state wine retailer and an...
The Twenty-First Amendment Enforcement Act isn’t the boon for state enforcement of antiquated and Commerce Clause violating direct shipping restrictions that regulators might think it is. These Ohio alcohol shipping cases are about to show that.
An Ohio Federal Court has marked two wine shipping cases as related. One suit...
No rehearing for 6th Circuit out-of-state retailer alcoholic beverage shipping case. Other Federal Appellate Court Circuit cases continue.
There are similar suits winding their way through different District and Appellate Courts at...
6th Circuit rules in favor of 3-tier system blocking access to out-of-state liquor retailers in Michigan case looking to allow out-of-state retailers to deliver to in-state consumers where in-staters have that privilege.
In case you don’t want to read through this, the majority of the reasoning...
Kentucky’s new law allowing breweries, distilleries and wineries to ship direct to consumers all over the U.S. should be the model for the country. But special interests that want to keep consumers paying more for alcohol and limit choice to protect their fiefdoms will try to stop people from achieving this freedom.
Kentucky HB 415 became law last week following passage by the Kentucky General Assembly...
