More briefs from the Missouri Broadcasters appeal over alcohol advertising regulations
Just a quick update I forgot to post earlier. In addition to the opening brief and addendum filed by the State of Missouri with...
Category: Suits
A blow to three-tiers. 7th Circuit sides with expansion of Granholm – allowing lawsuit challenging Illinois’s ban on direct shipping of liquor, beer, and spirits from out-of-state retailers.
“The Amendment gives states the power to structure their liquor distribution systems; it does not give states that adopt one structure over another outsized...
Initial brief filed with SCOTUS in Byrd v. Tennessee
The Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association – the association of in-state retailers that are looking to have the Tennessee residency requirements for retailers...
Wine consumers crowdsource funds to pay for an amicus brief. You can help Wine Freedom!
Wine Freedom – a website affiliated with the National Association of Wine Retailers is currently accepting donation via GoFundMe for the costs of a...
5th Circ. decision in favor of “Krusty Krab” as a trademark provides a word of warning to craft brewers looking to pay homage to their favorite things.
What do the Daily Planet, the General Lee, Kryptonite, and Conan the Barbarian all have in common with the Krusty Krab from SpongeBob SquarePants?...
Wal-Mart is waging a different fight against irrational liquor laws in the Fifth Circuit that offers alternatives to Byrd. (With links to 5th Circ. Briefs)
A fundamental tenet of the of fairness under the Constitution is that the States cannot discriminate in commerce between out-of-state players and in-state players....
Massachusetts Federal Court rules against Craft Beer Cellar in dispute with Glassdoor.com over anonymous negative online comments
Reporter and spectacular beer writer, Bryan Roth, published an excellent in-depth piece about Craft Beer Cellar and some of their legal issues over at...
Wyoming Supreme Court rules winery’s in-home free promotional tastings where nothing is sold but “offers to purchase” are collected are “sales” and are banned under Wyoming law.
You read that right. The Wyoming Supreme Court was recently confronted with a heck of an issue that could only be dreamed up by...
