Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
The "Annual Alcohol Law Symposium" sounds pretty important. Alcohol law is pretty serious stuff, impacts just about everyone in the land, and is an important field in the area of law. So it should be that an "Annual Alcohol Law Symposium" ought to be organized by an equally important sounding "Center for Alcohol Policy". But here's my question: How can such an important sounding symposium, produced by such an important sounding organization, present a list of symposium speakers that counts…
In every state where long-standing bans on sales of alcohol on Sunday have been lifted, consumers express their approval after having experienced the new convenience. This, predictably, appears to be the case in Connecticut where the long-standing ban on picking up a bottle of wine on Sunday was ended by the legislature and sales began in mid May. However, just as predictably, store owners remain unsatisfied by the change. Why consumers would like the lifting of the old, religious-inspired restrictions…
What set of regulatory circumstances "results in the best situation for a state's wine consumers"? This is the underlying question in a Memphis Commercial Appeal article written by Fredric Koeppel that considers the impact of locally-owned alcohol wholesalers that are bought by larger, multi-state, non-local companies. Just such a thing has occurred a number of times n Memphis. Where this southern city once hosted six, family-owned, local distributors of alcohol, now, after successive buyouts and consolidations, only two remain. The…
The Pennsylvania Tribune Review on Saturday published an editorial on the issue of wine regulations that continues a tradition that is on its way to becoming and institution: Discussing the impact of wine regulations without taking account of the issue form the perspective of the consumer. In "Data Disproves Argument Against Liquor Privatization", writers Antony Davis and James Harrigan, two economists from academia make the straightforward case that privatizing Pennsylvania's alcohol marketplace by taking out of the hands of the…
The odds are very good that the state of Massachusetts will end its annual legislative session without passing a direct shipping bill. The end of the 2012 MA legislative session is at 11:59pm on Tuesday July 31. Currently, H 1029, a bill that would partially legalize direct shipping in the state sits in the Consumer Protection Committee…dong nothing. For passage, the Committee will need to vote out the bill, then the bill needs to be voted upon in the House…
