Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America

Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America

New Sixth Circuit Opinion: The Three-Tier System is Constitutional—Feigning Public Health Concerns...

In a groundbreaking decision and major blow to interstate discrimination under the three-tier system, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati held that Ohio’s discriminatory law prohibitin…

True Story: Lawsuit Pits Two Bourbon Hall of Famers Against Each Other.

Led by its namesake Bourbon Hall of Famer, Peggy Noe Stevens & Associates has sued TKC Distilling Co. TKC probably does not sound familiar to anyone, and its assumed name, Saga Spirits Group, m…

Mystery Buyer of Barrell Craft Spirits Facility Sued Over Bulk Canadian Whisky

It did not take long for the new owner of Barrell Craft Spirit’s state-of-the-art blending and bottling facility in Louisville to find itself embroiled in a lawsuit. And as a bonus, the lawsuit rev…

Fire Up Your Home Still!?! Maybe not just yet.

Taxation has always been associated with whiskey in the United States. The nation’s first excise tax, levied in 1791, was on whiskey, and was enacted to fund the national debt incurred during the R…

New “We Were the First” Bourbon Lawsuit Rejected by the Sixth Circuit.

We all know bourbon brands that claim to be the first at something. One brand claims to honor the first person to have charred an oak barrel; another brand claims to be the first single barrel bour…

Cease-and-Desist Letters Just Add to a True Legacy.

As reported by MLive, a small winery and distillery near Grand Rapids, Michigan received a cease and desist letter from an unidentified “larger distiller” over its planned Legacy Whiskey brand. Leg…

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