Legal and regulatory coverage for beverage retailers, including licensing, sales, delivery, promotions, and market access.
Can a liquor authority use a retailer’s product mix to favor local producers? The Cayuga Nation litigation examines that question and shows why suppliers should preserve the licensing record when government preferences affect access to retail shelves.
Iowa’s winery licensing rules raised questions about equal access to direct retail sales. This article examines Buckel’s challenge and the distinction between the three-tier system and exceptions to it.
The Illinois Craft Brewers Guild’s 2023 omnibus bills proposed changes that reached well beyond breweries. Here’s what the package offered producers and hospitality businesses.
Who funds the discount at the register? Illinois’s 2022 proposal distinguished several kinds of beverage promotions and addressed retailer reimbursement for scan backs.
Illinois waived renewal fees for eligible Class 1A retail liquor licensees during the 2022–23 period. The article collects the commission’s guidance for bars, restaurants, and other retailers.
North Carolina lets local wine retailers ship to consumers while excluding out-of-state retailers. B-21 Wines v. Bauer exposes the fight over three-tier regulation, evidence, and equal treatment. Read the majority, Wilkinson’s dissent, and the appellate and Supreme Court briefs.
The first installment on Public Act 102-0442 covers changes affecting mead, taprooms, Class 3 brewers, self-distribution, and alternating premises.
The Eighth Circuit considered Missouri’s in-state presence requirement for wine retailers and the arguments over evidence in dormant Commerce Clause challenges.
Illinois Senate Bill 54 clarified delivery and shipping rights for liquor stores, bars, and other retailers. The article walks through the 2021 changes.
The Supreme Court declined to review Lebamoff’s challenge to Michigan’s retailer wine shipping restrictions. The post links to the Sixth Circuit analysis.
Massachusetts’ 2020 cannabis delivery language offers a model for courier and delivery licenses, social equity provisions, and regulatory design.
The Supreme Court’s November 2020 denial leaves Walmart’s challenge to Texas liquor licensing restrictions headed for further factual proceedings.
