It is illegal to ship alcoholic beverages into 30 states without going through a wholesaler, but there's no way to enforce these laws. Legislation pending in Congress would change that, giving state AGs a tool to go after the lawbreakers. The vinters' lobby is alarmed they may be cut out of the e-commerce sweepstakes. Outgunned by the wholesalers rallying behind the bill, they're trying to tar the measure's supporters as obstructionists setting a dangerous regulatory precedent for Internet commerce.
December 10, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The Internet’s greatest promise for anyone with something to sell is its capacity to render geography irrelevant. Old-fashioned boundaries — or just plain distance — no longer force producers to rely on middlemen to reach buyers in remote locales.
But America’s winemakers are learning that political boundaries are another matter altogether.
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