The Tennessee Wine case has come and gone and the shock has now worn off. Now it is time to take account of what the decision means. On its surface it is clearly a resounding win for Total Wine and More and a resounding loss for the Tennessee Wine Retailers Association (Association).
However, we all […]
In a previous post I predicted that Justice Samuel Alito would write the opinion in Tennessee Wine and that it would be written broadly.
Justice Alito wrote the opinion and settled the Granholm debate. I figured how the opinions were going that Alito would write it. Based on his questioning in oral argument I knew that he […]
Writing for the majority Justice Sam Alito made a statement that is going to resonate in the liquor industry for years to come. He held that reading Granholm as only extending to producers has no sound basis and Granholm stands for the proposition that the Commerce Clause prohibits state discrimination against all out-of-state economic interest.
As the debate over […]
The Court will be back Wednesday to issue opinions
The liquor world awaits the Supreme Court’s decision anxiously and we wonder how the case will turn out? Will the decision be narrow and limited to the facts of the case, or could we have a major decision that shakes the liquor world to its core?
The deciding factor on how far the Court could go, […]
Although the Tennessee Wine opinion was not released, the Supreme Court provided some clues on the destiny of the opinion.
The Chief Justice wrote the opinion in Knick v. Scott, why is that relevant to the liquor world? Since Knick has been disposed of, there is one opinion left from January oral arguments, yes Tennessee Wines. […]
The Supreme Court disappoints again and we will need to wait until Monday
This panel looked at whether temperance was dead or dormant as a justification for liquor regulations and statutes.
The panel consisted of Lester Jones an Economist with the National Beer Wholesalers Association; Sean O’Leary (The Irish Liquor Lawyer), President of O’Leary Law and Policy Group, LLC; Alyssa Wolfe, Acting Counsel to the Director of the […]