Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in B-21 v. North Carolina Case

Today the Supreme Court refused to take an appeal out of the Fourth Circuit of the win by North Carolina against an out of state retailer and the retailer’s claims that the NC state law regulating instate retail sales violate the dormant commerce clause.  The Supreme Court today issued a list of dozens of cases…Read More

15th Annual Center for Alcohol Policy Legal Conference to be held August 30 and 31 in Nashville

I am excited to be a part of the 15th Center for Alcohol Policy Legal Conference which will be held in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference starts with a reception the evening of August 29 and then goes all day the 30th and half the day on Wednesday the 30th. Registration can be found here. There…Read More

Why States should keep winning the physical-presence cases, Part I: using the extraterritoriality doctrine on defense

Guest Column:  John Neiman, Shareholder,  Maynard Cooper & Gale in Birmingham, Alabama and former Supreme Court (and 4th Circuit) law clerk and former Alabama State Solicitor General On June 1st the Fourth Circuit upheld, against a dormant Commerce Clause challenge, a North Carolina law requiring retailers who sell alcohol in the State to have a…Read More

First Half of 2022 State Alcohol Litigation Roundup

Last year I provided an update on alcohol litigation against the states. Like last year, there continues to be a significant narrowing in the types of active litigation but a stubborn volume of specific challenges under one remaining theory: the dormant Commerce Clause. For the most part, these lawsuits are attempts by out-of-state retailers to…Read More

Oral Arguments Held in 7th Circuit on Retailer Challenge to Indiana Law

The 7th Circuit held oral arguments on the Chicago Wine challenge to Indiana laws banning out of state retailers from shipping to Indiana residents.  The link to the oral argument can be found here. Judge  Easterbrook, Judge Kanne, and Judge Scudder served on this panel.  Judge Easterbrook noted that there have been a bunch of…Read More