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 […]
There is a Gun N Roses song called “Pretty Tied Up”, and in the middle of the song comes a fascinating verse.
Once you made that money, it costs more now
It might cost a lot more than you’d think
I just found a million dollars that someone forgot
It’s days like this that push me over the brink
Although […]
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 […]
In one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen, the 3rd Circuit a day after issuing its opinion in Jean Paul Weg, LLC v. Director of New Jersey Division of Alcohol Control, vacated its opinion and judgment ruling that it was issued in error. Here is the 3rd circuit ruling
The decision upheld New Jersey’s […]
In William Shakespeare’s classic play Julius Caesar, Cassius makes a call for action to Brutus by playing on his love for the Republic and what evolves is one of the most brilliant lines in a Shakespeare work. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
When the FTC […]
Today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed its first Robinson-Patman Act case in almost a quarter century against Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, LLC (“Southern”), alleging that Southern engaged in price discrimination by selling wine and spirits to small independent retailers at a higher price than it sold the same product to large national and […]
There are three sales channels in the liquor world, direct-to-consumer (often times one-tier involved), direct-to-retail (two-tiers involved), and sales through the traditional three-tier system.
A recent federal district Court decision in Iowa dealt with a state permitting in-state wineries to sell direct-to-retailer but not permitting these same privileges for out-of-state wineries.
Iowa unsuccessfully sought to […]
Vice President Kamala Harris shocked the political world when she suggested price controls as a way to deal with inflation. Price controls were last implemented under the Nixon Presidency and their impact was a negative for the economic system.
With playing a central role in her economic plan layout, there is no doubt, if elected President […]
Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, LLC (“Southern”) and Republic National Distributing Company, LLC (“RNDC”) received bad news last week that Provi’s case alleging Southern and RDNC’s violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act can move forward.
Southern and RNDC filed a motion to dismiss the charges in response to Provi’s lawsuit against them. A motion to dismiss […]
It may surprise many of my readers that I recently authored an amicus brief, which advocated for the expansion of a state’s franchise rules. It seems at odds with my free-market principles that abhor economic protectionism.
Liquor franchise rules guarantee that a supplier/manufacturer cannot get out of a distribution agreement with a liquor distributor without […]