Ohio’s Wine Shipping Battle: Block v. Canepa – A Final Blow in the District Court
Another federal court has weighed in on the ongoing war over direct-to-consumer wine shipping,...
Tagged: Dormant Commerce Clause
Breaking Down the Dormant Commerce Clause Case Against Unevenly Applied Rights Between In-State and Out-of-State Manufacturers: Buckel Family Wine v. Mosiman
In a decision from the United States District Court for the Southern District of...
Case involving alcohol law allowing in-state distilleries shipping direct to citizens and prohibiting out-of-state distilleries from doing the same allowed to proceed after direct comparison to Granholm.
In a classic Granholm v. Heald situation involving a lack of parity between in-state...
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...
Final briefs filed in 5th Circuit Texas ABC Challenge to Wal-Mart’s Commerce Clause win against prohibition of publicly traded corporations obtaining certain liquor licenses. (Bonus, we’ve got all the briefs for you.)
Back in November we wrote about the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Comission’s appeal challenging an...
Here are the Respondents’ briefs filed in Byrd (Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Assoc. v. Blair)
The two respondents appointed to represent the interests of the plaintiff back at the...
Florida latest battleground for direct to consumer shipment dormant commerce clause challenge
This great piece by the folks over at wine-searcher.com details the recent inception of...
A blow to three-tiers. 7th Circuit sides with expansion of Granholm – allowing lawsuit challenging Illinois’s ban on direct shipping of liquor, beer, and spirits from out-of-state retailers.
“The Amendment gives states the power to structure their liquor distribution systems; it does...
Initial brief filed with SCOTUS in Byrd v. Tennessee
The Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association – the association of in-state retailers that...
Michigan court grants stay of injunction forcing Michigan to allow out-of-state retailers to sell wine directly to customers until Supreme Court Decides Byrd.
Judge Tarnow has granted a stay of his injunction in the Lebamoff case prohibiting...
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...
8th Circuit Affirms Decision Denying Wholesaler Licenses to Non-Residents in Southern Wine & Spirits case
Today the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals released its decision in the Southern Wine...
