Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008
The road to reason and commonsense is often twisted and curvy. Take the continuing effort to bring wine sales into the 21st century. This effort most recently lead to hot and sweltering New Orleans where the National Conference of State Legislatures held their Annual Conference. Along with literally hundreds of ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
In the comment section of a the previous post on the current state of wine shipping in Texas, Josh made a simple request:
"I wish you would also publish information on how consumers can fight against this kind of industry abuse. Where can we donate money? Who are the politicians in ...
Posted in Shipping Legislation, Legal Issues | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 18th, 2008
For two years since Specialty Wine Retailers Association opened its lawsuit against the state of Texas challenging the constitutionality of its ban against out-of-state retailer shipping to Texans, the state has remained open to shippers. The mechanism by which consumers were still able to procure wines from out-of-state retailers was ...
Posted in State Laws, Three Tier System, Legal Issues | 14 Comments »