No decision today at the Supreme Court in the Tennessee Wine case
The Court will be back Wednesday to issue opinions
Tennessee Wine Case: Will the Supreme Court decide to put an end to Checkerboard Justice?
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, […]
What is the destiny of the Tennessee Wine opinion, The Court may have told us today!
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. […]
No Tennessee Wine decision
The Supreme Court disappoints again and we will need to wait until Monday
No decision in Tennessee Wine Case
The Supreme Court did not issue an opinion in the Tennessee Wine case. The Court will be back Thursday to publish more opinions. I still expect an Alito written opinion, but we shall see!
Who will write the opinion in the Tennessee Wine Case and how will it influence the outcome?
The Supreme Court has only two more weeks this term and us liquor folks are awaiting anxiously a final decision. The conventional wisdom is the longer it takes an opinion to come out, the more groundbreaking it will become.
In liquor circles we are not only interested in the opinion but also who will be its […]
Can state regulators enforce liquor laws that federal courts have found unconstitutional?
Dedicated In Memorium to Lieutenant Michael Murphy,
a Great American Hero
A US District Court held that Michigan’s law banning out-of-state retailers from shipping wine into the state was unconstitutional. It held that the nondiscrimination principle which applied to suppliers in Granholm extended to retailers. Michigan sits in the 6th Federal Judicial Circuit, […]
Missouri wine shipping case has no flair for the dramatic
In an unsurprising decision the Eastern District of Missouri ruled that a challenge to Missouri’s ban on out-of-state wine retailers shipping to customers within the state, failed to state a claim on which relief could be granted and dismissed the challenge. Sarasota Wine Market v. Parson, Case No. 4:17CV2792 HEA (Eastern District of Missouri, March […]
The Million-Dollar Question for Wine Shipping
There is a great buzz going around about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Tennessee Wine case and whether this case will decide if Granholm extends to retailer, and hence deems laws banning wine retailer shipping as unconstitutional.
Even if the Supreme Court remains silent on the specific issue, many lower federal courts and even state courts may […]