When Suppliers Walk Away from Inventory: What Alcohol Distributors Can Learn from Labatt USA v. Friends Beverage Group
Alcohol distributors know the scenario too well: a brand underperforms, the parties agree to...
Category: Suits
From Farm Bill Freedom to State Control: Tenth Circuit Upholds Wyoming’s Hemp Restrictions
The dispute in Green Room LLC v. Wyoming arose after Wyoming’s 2024 legislative session...
Standing Still: California Wine Law Challenge Falls on Procedural Grounds, Not the Dormant Commerce Clause
The federal court decision in Dwinell, LLC v. McCullough, No. 2:23-cv-10029-SB-KES (C.D. Cal. Apr....
Washington Court Tries to Sidestep Granholm in Out-of-State Distiller Fight
In an opinion that will likely not stand for long, the U.S. District Court...
The Echo of Brandeis in the Age of Tennessee Wine: Jean-Paul Wegg and the Limits of State Power under the 21st Amendment
Justice Brandeis, writing for the Supreme Court in State Board of Equalization v. Young’s...
Keg Deposits, Legal Battles, and Distributor Protections: Lessons from Cavalier v. MicroStar
In a recent legal skirmish that should catch the attention of distributors nationwide, Cavalier...
Navigating Supplier Relationships: Lessons From a Recent Decision on Wholesaler Agreements
A recent court decision [link to decision] involving a prominent Connecticut wholesaler and one...
Breaking Down the Dormant Commerce Clause Case Against Unevenly Applied Rights Between In-State and Out-of-State Manufacturers: Buckel Family Wine v. Mosiman
In a decision from the United States District Court for the Southern District of...
Convoyed Damages and Consequential Losses For Distributors In Suits Against Suppliers: Lessons from American Northwest Distributors v. Four Roses
When a supplier pulls the plug on a distribution relationship, it doesn’t just hit...
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...
Court finds statute barring retailer warehouse storage out of jurisdiction of alcoholic beverage control authority does not violate Dormant Commerce Clause. Finally, a Tennessee Wine case that is NOT about direct wine shipping.
We will look back to find that the greatest result of Tennessee Wine’s “test”...
The Tennessee Wine Test? 6th Circuit falls in line with requiring evidence of out-of-state alcohol shipping restriction’s health and safety benefits in order to surmount a Dormant Commerce Clause challenge. The State says it wants to take the matter to the Supreme Court.
“However, the Court in Lebamoff did not hold that direct ship restrictions are always...
