Beverage warehousing coverage, including storage agreements, inventory losses, insurance, and disputes over stored products.
A supplier’s promise to retrieve inventory can become the most important part of a termination agreement. Labatt’s dispute with Friends Beverage highlights return deadlines, storage costs, contractual remedies, and the evidence distributors need when pickup never happens.
A barrel-rack collapse put years of whiskey production at risk. Vale Fox’s insurance dispute illustrates why producers should examine collapse coverage, construction exclusions, and definitions of finished stock.
District Winery wanted to store alcohol outside the District. Its appeal put a warehouse rule, inspections, and Tennessee Wine’s treatment of state alcohol regulation in play.
The BIG SIX trademark application illustrates how industry terminology, descriptiveness, and genericness affect registration of wine marks.
An Ohio beer-line dispute illustrates how terminology and statutory interpretation can affect the regulation of routine beverage-industry services.
Illinois HB 4897 advances in 2018 with proposed changes to craft-brewery operations and rights to serve beer to the public.
An example licensing agreement illustrates issues to address when authorizing merchandise bearing a beverage company’s brand.
A dismissal ruling examines claims that Sapporo’s branding and packaging implied the beer sold in the United States was made in Japan.
The K Vintners case examines who may seek a refund when a bonded warehouse pays excise tax on a winery’s inventory without the claimed credit.
