Life is confusing and with the information overload we experience, it gets even more confusing. When it comes to the liquor world, we are not immune to outside forces! Nothing demonstrates this more than the debate over direct-to-consumer (DTC) shipping. The debate over DTC spirits shipping is alive and well […]
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With both sides acknowledging a circuit split, will the Supreme Court grant cert?
Petitioners filed their reply brief in the latest U.S. Supreme Court challenge to discriminatory wine retailer shipping laws. This brief represents the last brief filed at the cert stage […]
McAlpine’s Fusiliers – The Dubliners & Ronnie Drew | Festival Folk (1985) – YouTube
Direct shipping and the 21st Amendment Original Intent Issue
As some things change in life, they stay the same. The U.S. Constitution lives by that same precept. As life evolves and unforeseeable facts develop, the legal doctrines developed […]
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The liquor establishment embraces the Flintstones’ economy
An article recently in Beverage Dynamics discussed DTC shipping, and its opposition to DTC shipping did not surprise me, what surprised me was a note from the Publisher endorsing a Flinstonian view of the economy, […]
The Craic was Ninety in the Isle of Man – The Dubliners & Paddy Reilly | Festival Folk (1985) – YouTube (Overruled by my son, I picked Thanksgiving music, he wanted Irish music)
The states unleashed the digital marketplace, but then they fight to resist its evolution
There are numerous cases going through the […]
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California Shipping Bill, the Cat is out of the bag but the wholesalers work to contain it
COVID brought many changes to the liquor industry and for some of these changes, there is no turning back. In March […]
McAlpine’s Fusiliers – The Dubliners & Ronnie Drew | Festival Folk (1985) – YouTube
When the bias becomes scientific: How WSWA works to destroy DTC Shipping
The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) has developed some sort of rapid response team to come to the rescue for their positions on DTC […]
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Irish Liquor Lawyer makes 70th media appearance
I am happy to announce that I made my 70th media appearance in Blake Gray’s great piece in Wine Searcher discussing the Southern Wine and Spirits issue related to the federal government’s (TTB and joint IRS) […]
Great contributing to Kate Bernot’s fine piece on Blue Cloud and how it is shaking up the liquor world.
“One day you’re going to get someone who’s big enough to challenge the system and say, ‘Why can’t we vertically integrate?’ ‘Why is the three-tier system necessary?’” O’Leary says. “Innovation is always in a gray area.”
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Irish Liquor Lawyer files U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief
Irish Liquor lawyer filed a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief supporting the cert petition which challenges the Fourth Circuit’s decision, in B-21 Wines v. Guy, that upheld North Carolina’s discriminatory wine retailer […]