SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT BE IN THE BUSINESS OF ALCOHOL?

By |2020-04-13T21:10:22+00:00December 25th, 2019|Liquor Industry Insights|

Government agencies around the Midwest have been in the news lately about their liquor systems. Michigan’s liquor system has become a complete folly under which product availability is running short, while Iowa Alcoholic Beverage Division faces claims from a whistle-blower that it illegally and excessively marked up the price of alcohol product.

Missouri’s Brief released in the 8th Circuit Sarasota Wine Case

By |2020-04-13T21:11:04+00:00November 13th, 2019|Breaking News, Liquor Case Discussion|

Today the state of Missouri wrote its brief in the 8th Circuit, Sarasota Wine case which deals with wine shipping.

Missouri prevailed at the District Court based on the Southern Wine and Spirits case, in which the 8th Circuit found a residency requirement for wholesalers constitutional.

However, since then Tennessee Wine, which extends Granholm’s nondiscrimination principle to retailers, has been decided and could dramatically […]

NCSLA 2019 New Orleans, Part I: Ethics Panel

By |2020-04-13T21:10:48+00:00November 4th, 2019|Conference Reviews, Liquor Industry Insights|

SIX DEGREES OF REGULATOR SEPARATION:

LEGAL ETHICS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

MODERATOR – WESLEY GEISELMAN, Of Counsel, Post Polak, P.A.,

Panelists: RUSSELL THOMAS, Executive Director, Tennessee ABCC

SEAN O’LEARY, President, O’Leary Law & Policy Group, LLC, Elmhurst IL

ANNA HIRAI, Assistant Administrator, Honolulu Liquor Commission

ADENA SANTIAGO, Senior Counsel, Husch Blackwell LLP, Washington, DC

Introduction

The one […]

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