Every alcohol licensee knows the knock.
A liquor investigator, police officer, excise agent, revenue agent, or local enforcement official walks into the licensed premises and asks to inspect records, walk the warehouse, look behind the bar, review invoices, pull POS
Distributors already know what happens when a supplier moves a brand. Everybody rushes to fair market value, inventory, depletion, transition timing, and customer handoff. The paperwork often follows the same script. A brand transfer agreement sets the mechanics, the parties
Craft brewing grew up on beer-and-a-handshake deals. An artist liked the brewery, liked the founders, liked the project, and put pen to paper before anybody thought about diligence schedules, disclosure letters, or chain-of-title memos. Those days are not gone. They
Chicago zoning fights rarely end with a single hearing. Our recent win for Marigrow (link to Illinois 1st District appellate opinion (rule 23 order) regarding this cannabis zoning matter originiating from a hearing and win at the Chicago Zoning
Alcohol distributors know the scenario too well: a brand underperforms, the parties agree to unwind, and the supplier promises to “take care of” remaining inventory—until the calls stop, the warehouse fills up, and the storage invoices keep coming.
A recent
The dicta that ate the doctrine
Watch modern alcohol-case briefing for five minutes and you’ll see the same incantation: the three-tier system counts as “unquestionably legitimate.” The phrase originated in North Dakota v. United States (plurality), where the Court described
A Fedway-Based Critique of Conn. Fine Wine & Spirits v. Liquor Control Commission
The Connecticut Appellate Court’s recent decision in Conn. Fine Wine & Spirits, LLC v. Department of Consumer Protection, Liquor Control Commission should catch the attention of every
States and municipalities keep acting like cannabis sits in some constitutional no-man’s-land where they can write any residency barrier they want and the Constitution somehow doesn’t count.
The Ninth Circuit just gave that instinct a major assist.
In Peridot Tree
States and municipalities keep acting like cannabis sits in some constitutional no-man’s-land where they can write any advertising restriction they can dream up and the First Amendment somehow doesn’t count.
We’ve seen this movie before. In Cocroft v. Graham a
Congress just slipped a near-total federal hemp rewrite into the shutdown bill. If you blinked, you missed it.
Section 781 of the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 quietly amends the 2018
