What you should know about the TTB’s new “conditionally approved” approach to streamlining certificates of label approval
The TTB recently announced that COLAs Online will have a new status called “Conditionally...
Category: Winemaking
Farm wineries’ 8th Circuit Commerce Clause case challenges a state licensing law requiring their wines contain a majority of in-state grapes. BONUS: We’ve got the briefs and oral argument for you.
Two Minnesota farm wineries brought a challenge to a Minnesota Farm Winery Act restriction...
Argument about lack of distributor services may help in establishing shorter UCC statute of limitations for breach of your alcohol distribution agreement
The statute of limitations on a breach of a liquor distribution agreement received some...
Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that would change distilled spirits labeling practices? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 9)
Last time, in Part 8 of our series on the TTB’s “Notice No. 176”...
Illinois bill proposes to eliminate bond requirement for small breweries, wineries and distilleries and importing distributors.
It’s called House Bill 2577 (link to text) and it looks to accomplish what...
Facing false advertising suit, Olympia Beer removed the words “pure mountain water” from its website. Does that help or hurt?
Olympia Beer is currently waiting for a court to decide if its various branding,...
Challenges to discriminatory and protectionist liquor distribution and sales laws continue in spite of pending SCOTUS case as wine importing challenge in CA gets hearing on motion to dismiss
In a case that I was sure would be put off until after the...
Did you get a certificate of label approval before you registered your trademark? If not, it might be invalid.
We’ve covered this issue before (see below) but a recent case brings it to...
Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that would change more wine labeling practices? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 8)
Last time, in Part 7 of our series on the TTB’s “Notice No. 176”...
Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that would change some wine labeling practices? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 7)
Last time, in Part 6 of our series on the TTB’s “Notice No. 176”...
Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that would remove the blanket prohibition on labels bearing the U.S. Flag and change other current restrictions? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 5)
Yesterday, in Part 4 of our series on the TTB’s “Notice No. 176” –...
Are you ready for the TTB’s new alcoholic beverage labeling and advertising regs that define closed packaging and let you accentuate alcohol content statements? (New TTB advertising and labeling rules Part 4)
As promised, we are plodding through the TTB’s “Notice No. 176” – the “Modernization...
