Update: Illinois State Senate passes Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act – recreational marijuana in Illinois is one step closer
Just in case you didn’t catch it in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Springfield Journal-Register,...
Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Regulatory and Legal Updates
Amended Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act could pass this week. Here are a few of the changes. Bonus we have a redline for you.
Senator Steans introduced a new version of the proposed Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax...
Court orders Bud Light to stop advertising with a few phrases and bans two commercials and a billboard in the MillerCoors corn syrup lawsuit. Bonus – we’ve got the opinion for you.
We’ll have more on this tomorrow, but for now, we wanted to post the...
Whacky details published in Kona Brewing “not made in Hawaii” false advertising lawsuit – $2.9 Million in attorneys’ fees, publication in National Geographic. Bonus: we’ve got the motion for you.
It will come as no surprise that no real action has to be taken...
You and Illinois’s proposed Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Part 2 – the Early Approval Adult Use Dispensing Organization Licenses available to current medical cannabis dispensing organizations and their right to secondary sites.
A little something for everybody. That’s our take on the theme of the new...
Why do Illinois’s legislators hate its cities and towns and want to rush an alcohol delivery bill that hurts everyone except Chicago and their big-box retailer supporters? Here’s how they’re hurting you.
They’re looking to get a bill through committee by hastily amending it and then...
You and Illinois’s proposed Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Part 1 – the personal use of cannabis, home-growing in Illinois, and possession limits.
Crain’s Chicago Business ran a listicle by John Pletz this morning entitled the 5...
More reason to check your website’s use policy and not squash bad online reviews: the FTC is enforcing the Consumer Review Fairness Act
Back in 2016 we wrote about the Consumer Review Fairness Act passed by congress...
Court orders FDA to move up its review of e-cigarettes.
In another blow to e-cigarettes that could have repercussions for many industries utilizing vaping...
Lawsuit against founder/brewer after brewery’s failure provides lessons for founders dealing with investors.
Haplessness appears to have saved the founder/head brewer of a brewery that never got...
More craft brewer on craft brewer violence as Anchor Brewing opposes Yuengling’s filing for an historic “steam” related trademark
The blog Wynning History posted in February about the tortuous history of D.G. Yuengling...
Here’s the full complaint with exhibits in the Guns N’ Roses lawsuit against Canarchy over the Oskar Blues Guns ‘N’ Rosé beer – #GunsNRose
You may have thought this had pittered out. I certainly did after I took...
