Three-tier Parity

By |2025-04-17T20:30:54+00:00April 17th, 2025|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

In the liquor world the lack of parity between the tiers is obvious to someone with firsthand knowledge of the industry. It is very difficult to challenge the power of the middle tier. From time to time a major supplier like Sazerac will yield its power over the wholesale tier but this is the exception […]

Arizona rehearing petition, there is reason for optimism

By |2025-03-26T00:43:57+00:00March 26th, 2025|Liquor Case Discussion|

 

 

Counsel for the Plaintiff in Day v. Henry, which challenges Arizona’s discriminatory wine retailer shipping law, filed a petition for rehearing. There is optimism to believe the petition will be granted.

The 9th circuit panel ruled in a 2-1 vote to uphold Arizona’s discriminatory wine retailer shipping law. What makes this decision different is the analysis […]

Ireland will conquer Europe

By |2025-03-16T16:32:04+00:00March 16th, 2025|Liquor Industry Insights|

 

 

Ireland has never been known for its conquest of foreign lands, unlike countries like England, France, Spain and the Netherlands they have never held colonies and established an empire.

But now it seems Ireland is poised to conquer Europe by the heavy hand of government regulation. As someone who is Irish I can’t say this is […]

The 9th Circuit enacts Social Darwinism into the 21st Amendment

By |2025-03-07T17:09:15+00:00March 7th, 2025|Liquor Case Discussion|

 

In Lochner v. New York, Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote one of the most famous lines in America legal history when he stated:

“The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics” Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45, 75 (1905)

Mr. Spencer’s book Social Statics was a defense of Social Darwinism, and the concept […]

Irish Liquor Lawyer in Wine Spectator

By |2025-03-06T14:28:27+00:00March 6th, 2025|Irish Liquor Lawyer in The Press|

 

Great discussing the impact of the Mississippi winery DTC shipping law. A great day for more economic freedom and choice. As I stated:

“Mississippi residents will no longer be constricted to what their wholesalers choose to provide them and now can make independent choices to purchase the wine they desire,”

https://www.winespectator.com/articles/news-mississippi-legalizes-direct-winery-wine-shipping

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