Here’s why you couldn’t list the ABV content of your beer on the label before 1995, and how Coors and the First Amendment changed that.
Next week we’re going to be writing about the First Amendment, alcohol advertising, and...
Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Regulatory and Legal Updates
Some tips on implementing a compliant freshness pull-date reimbursement or exchange program that isn’t a consignment violation.
Drinkers love fresh beer so much that they go so far as to open...
Bourbon upstart using name of legacy distillery as location defeats Sazerac’s claims: here’s how history can protect a descriptive use of another’s trademark.
You’re likely going to be involved in a trademark dispute at some point in...
Importing alcoholic beverages and wondering where your reduced tax rates and credits are? Customs and Border Protection prepares to implement the system to allow you to file for your refunds.
The Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2017 didn’t just help domestic...
Liquor distributor loses appeal against illegal importers for civil R.I.C.O. damages on lost sales where bootleggers’ primary goal was not paying taxes.
The opinion in Empire Merchants, LLC v. Reliable Churchill et al. (embedded below), tells...
Protected against wine fraud? Think again. Court rules “valuable possessions” insurance doesn’t protect against wine fraud and counterfeits.
This case is a piece of the ongoing Kurniawan saga which may not be...
Read what the USMCA has in store for U.S. craft beer, wine, and distilled spirits – it’s great for brewers, vintners, and distillers.
The “Alcohol Annex” to the new United States-Canada-Mexico Trade Deal that replaces NAFTA is...
Let them call it Whisky: Artificially made wines and spirits require us to rethink the Standards of Identity.
This recent article by Hannah Goldfield, the New Yorker’s food critic in the...
3-tiers crumbling? Michigan forced to allow out-of-state wine retailers to ship direct; avoiding Michigan’s 3-tier system.
The slow dismantling of protectionist state statutes prohibiting interstate shipment of alcohol advances....
Congress Stiffs Robotic Bartenders
When the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab set about solving the...
Wisconsin court says beer distributors must arbitrate each other over fair value of distribution rights even when they don’t timely file.
Wisconsin is one of several states with a beer franchise law that allows brewers...
BREAKING! – SCOTUS grants cert. in Byrd: Out-of-state retailers to be heard on issue of commerce clause discrimination.
Today the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in the Sixth Circuit’s Tennessee...
