Shelf-Stocking as an Illegal Inducement? What Connecticut’s Free-Labor Ruling Means for Alcohol Wholesalers After Loper Bright
A Fedway-Based Critique of Conn. Fine Wine & Spirits v. Liquor Control Commission The...
Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Regulatory and Legal Updates
Ninth Circuit Says the Dormant Commerce Clause Doesn’t Apply to Cannabis Licenses — Even Though Raich Said Marijuana Is Interstate Commerce (Enough to Criminalize)
States and municipalities keep acting like cannabis sits in some constitutional no-man’s-land where they...
Can a City Take Cannabis Revenue and Still Ban Cannabis Billboards? The First Amendment Just Said No.
Can a city take cannabis revenue and still ban cannabis billboards? A federal court just reminded Perris that the First Amendment doesn’t disappear when cannabis enters the picture. A strong, sensible commercial-speech ruling—and a roadmap for challenging overreaching cannabis advertising laws nationwide.
New Federal Hemp Rules and the 0.4 mg THC Cap: Bad News for Hemp Drinks
Congress just slipped a near-total federal hemp rewrite into the shutdown bill. If you...
From Farm Bill Freedom to State Control: Tenth Circuit Upholds Wyoming’s Hemp Restrictions
The dispute in Green Room LLC v. Wyoming arose after Wyoming’s 2024 legislative session...
TTB Publishes Shutdown Plan: What It Means for the Beverage Industry
On October 1, 2025, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) released...
Illinois Federal Court Upholds Three-Tier System Against Out-of-State Retailer Shipping Challenge
The Northern District of Illinois has weighed in on the ongoing national fight over...
NY Distillery Wins Key Insurance Ruling on Barrel Collapse Coverage; Time to Check Your Coverage for This Issue
A federal court in New York delivered a major win for beverage producers facing...
Ninth Circuit’s Amended Wine Shipping Opinion: Discrimination? Irrelevant.
Earlier this year, we wrote that the Ninth Circuit’s original decision in Day v....
Lite vs Light in Beer: Why Two 7th Circuit Cases Keep the Terms Fair Game
September marks the anniversary of the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in Miller v. Jos. Schlitz...
Oral Beer Distribution Agreements Do Get Franchise Protection and the Recent —Oak v. Yuengling Shows How to Plead Them
It finally happened. New York courts have at last spoken clearly on a question...
Second Circuit Brings State-Tied Restorative Justice Licensing Under Constitutional Scrutiny
New York’s attempt to bake “home field advantage” into its cannabis licensing process just...
