The @ILLiquorControl issues updated FAQ for tasting rooms, taprooms, bars, restaurants on limited operations during this phase of re-opening.
On Friday, the Illinois Liquor Control Commission issued an FAQ geared at implementing the...
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No rehearing for 6th Circuit out-of-state retailer alcoholic beverage shipping case. Other Federal Appellate Court Circuit cases continue.
There are similar suits winding their way through different District and Appellate Courts at...
New Illinois legislation allows bars and restaurants to sell cocktails to go, but for some reason, the act of drafting liquor legislation continues to be a hack-job. Do only glass containers work? What’s the work-around for brewpubs, tap rooms and distilling pubs?
The State of Illinois passed a bill expanding alcoholic beverage consumption options in its...
Aviation Gin ad subject of DISCUS code complaint and finding is a good reminder that industry advertising guidelines are sometimes at odds with inventiveness, humor, and parody… but a law or regulation would have to acknowledge those things.
Codes of responsible advertising rarely make room for innovation and humor. The typical inception...
Indiana alcohol regulatory body enjoined from enforcing in-state residency requirements for packaged liquor retailer licenses. Tennessee Wine applied means some regular state arguments for statutory justification must be rejected and cannot satisfy health and safety analysis. Bonus: we’ve got the docs for you.
Upholding the rulings of Granholm and Tennessee Wine, A Federal Court in Indiana has...
TTB provides insight for tax relief and destruction of unmerchantable beer; also changes some trade practice policies for craft distillers, craft brewers, wholesalers, bars and wineries during COVID-19.
Through a series of FAQs regarding the processes for the destruction of beer and...
OSHA has COVID-19 guidelines for bars and restaurants – adding to the manufacturing and delivery ones that brewers, vintners and distillers should read.
OSHA has released guidelines for bars and restaurants serving the public through takeout or...
Illinois authorizes returns of wine and spirits for bars and restaurants. But act fast and don’t expect much – the guidance is limited in ways beer returns are not.
In a new guidance (link to guidance) published today, the Illinois Liquor Control Commission...
6th Circuit rules in favor of 3-tier system blocking access to out-of-state liquor retailers in Michigan case looking to allow out-of-state retailers to deliver to in-state consumers where in-staters have that privilege.
In case you don’t want to read through this, the majority of the reasoning...
Court allows determination of whether “buttery” on Franzia boxes is infringement of JaM Cellars marks or descriptive to head to jury. Kudos to the Court for not rubber-stamping the parties’ requests to seal the record – thereby providing access to all.
Sometimes the USPTO doesn’t always catch when a business tries to trademark words that...
Vineyard loses claims against U.S. for independent contractor’s misapplication of herbicide that destroyed vines and rendered them useless for three years where U.S. exercised no direct control over contractor and herbicides present no “special risks.”
E&J Gallo brought this suit against the United States and the US’s contractor, Pestmaster...
Kentucky’s new law allowing breweries, distilleries and wineries to ship direct to consumers all over the U.S. should be the model for the country. But special interests that want to keep consumers paying more for alcohol and limit choice to protect their fiefdoms will try to stop people from achieving this freedom.
Kentucky HB 415 became law last week following passage by the Kentucky General Assembly...
