Watch the Mississippi wine shipping case oral arguments live on November 13 at 1:30 p.m. CST
Live telecast oral arguments may be a federal rarity, but MIssissippi is a bellwether...
Category: Regulations
Amazon of liquor one step closer as Michigan files opening brief in 6th Circ. Commerce Clause appeal of injunction allowing out-of-state retailers to ship alcohol to residents like in-state retailers can.
Back in October we wrote about Michigan’s Lebamoff decision and the win it represents...
Illinois Liquor Control Commission publishes informative FAQ for bars and breweries about Illinois’s new growler & crowler law.
The good people over at the Illinois Liquor Control Commission – the entity responsible...
Here’s the argument audio from the 8th Circuit’s alcoholic beverage advertising case. Advertisers won this by a mile. Oh, and did I mention there’s evidence in the record that 3-tier is useless and doesn’t protect the public?
You’ll recall this is the second appeal in this matter where a group of...
Federal Appeals Court reverses Walmart’s Commerce Clause win against Texas’s ban on public corporations holding liquor store licenses. Walmart requests en banc hearing.
A three judge panel of the 5th Circuit ended Walmart’s recent Commerce Clause triumph....
Is it regulating manufacturing, or the sale to consumers? Michigan court refuses to enjoin law that prohibits a winery/cidery receiving a bonded transfer from selling the transferred wine/cider to consumers without further processing.
A mischaracterization of what a Michigan statute regulates and what rights of a winery/cidery...
Washington State appeals court overturns some trade practice regulations regarding price differentials to retailers. Court’s justification in favor of volume discounts may be helpful in challenging similar regulations in other states.
In a blow against some restrictive trade practice regulations Washington’s Court of Appeals recently...
Don’t get your marijuana smell on my grapes, it ruins the wine. Vineyard will have its day in court against neighboring cannabis grower.
This case is interesting because other recent attempts by neighbors of cannabis growers to...
Court dismisses Commerce Clause challenge to California’s requirements for out-of-state wine importers and wholesalers for lack of clarity on what the challengers were complaining about.
A Florida based wine importer, Orion Wine Imports, LLC and its owner brought an...
8th Circuit sets argument in 1st Amendment challenge to Missouri’s alcohol advertising statutes and advertisers file brief challenging lazy arguments about reasons for restrictions on alcohol advertising.
One of our favorite alcohol advertising cases is finally progressing again. The 8th Circuit...
2nd Circuit judges dissent in failure to have full court hearing over antitrust problems with alcohol wholesaler “post and hold” pricing laws. The “hold” is the problem.
You’d be hard pressed to find a stronger condemnation of the failure to hold...
Voluntary disclosure program for alcohol wholesalers and importers to report changes in control and proprietorship could be the chance you need to get compliant.
Last year’s TTB suspension of Skokie Valley Beverage’s wholesaler’s permit which asserted the permit...
