Included are the vast majority of Illinois liquor bills so far introduced this session.
The craft distillers are busy! They are requesting full retail privileges, self-distribution privileges, increases in the amount they can serve in their tasting rooms, and up to 500,000 gallons in storage capacity.
This last number seems […]
For years state regulations and statutes have been under constant and sometimes successful attacks from Commerce Clause challenges. Now another line of constitutional attacks is coming on the horizon and could weaken state regulatory authority.
Recently, plaintiffs have become more embolden to utilize 1st Amendment attacks on a state’s legal authority to regulate liquor matters.
President Trump signs into law the 2018 Farm Bill which legalizes hemp.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cbd-and-hemp-are-now-legal-in-the-us-so-what-does-that-mean-for-pot-companies-2018-12-20
There is a common saying that “technology transformed the world!” In many walks of life that is true and we see it before our own very eyes. When I first entered the liquor world I heard the same refrain,”technology will […]
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-24446.pdf
The proposed Illinois “of value” regulations sailed through its final hurdle without objections. The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules did not object to the draft rules. Once the agency adopts the rule, which is a formality, it should become final.
Here is a copy of the “of value” proposed regulations that should become final soon.
http://www.ilga.gov/commission/jcar/SecondNotices/110100-1807735r02.pdf
Many states including my home state of Illinois, do not allow out-of-state retailers to ship to in-state customers. Problematically for these states enforcing these laws are tough and sometimes close to impossible. States try different methods to stop out-of-state retailers from shipping to in-state customers, but the states really lack a strong deterrence for stopping […]
The sad news came out the other day that my hometown company MillerCoors plans to cut 350 salaries positions as part of a restructuring. Although many other brewers made cuts in the past, MillerCoors restructuring worries me, because it faces uncertainty.
In an article in the Chicago Tribune MillerCoors indicated that it discontinued after less […]
The TTB’s (Federal Tax and Trade Bureau) investigations into trade practice violations became a major news story when it was announced that it entered into joint investigations with the Florida and Illinois liquor enforcement agencies. The importance of these issues became very newsworthy when Warsteiner entered into a $900,000 Offer-in-Compromise […]