A second round of wine-related litigation is fermenting across the nation, challenging state shipping laws that limit direct sales to consumers. New suits and amended complaints are attacking requirements that consumers buy wine in person, and wineries are challenging shipping limits based on production volume. The recent suits put a new twist on the direct-shipping issues that prompted a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling which found that New York and Michigan discriminated against out-of-state wineries.
February 02, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A new crop of litigation is fermenting across the nation in a second round of challenges to state shipping laws that limit direct sales of wine to consumers.
New suits and amended complaints filed in the past year are attacking requirements that consumers must purchase wine in person, with the first court decisions recently issued in Maine and Kentucky. Wineries also are challenging legal shipping limits that are based on production volume.
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