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Brewing Business in Pa.: Clarification of Tax Law May Affect Industry

The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue recently announced that Pennsylvania breweries are to begin collecting 6 percent sales tax on direct to consumer beer sales. This is a significant departure from the department's prior determination that breweries were exempt from collecting and remitting sales tax from direct-to-consumer sales.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Dram Shop Cases Are Perfectly Suited for Early Mediation

If we accept as true the proposition that 98 percent of civil cases settle, it would seem to make perfect sense for any one of the attorneys retained by any of the parties outlined above to ask themselves if this claim is the 2 percent case that will ultimately have to be decided by a jury in a small town in central Pennsylvania.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Should States be Allowed to Discriminate Against Nonresident Liquor Business Owners?

Alcohol is not a product that is regulated, marketed or sold like any other product. As counsel and U.S. Supreme Court justices in the Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association v. Clayton Byrd case point out, it is not milk, asphalt, books or paint. It is regarded as “particularly dangerous,” and as a result it is closely regulated.
10 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Investment Fund Led by Ex-Panera Bread CEO in Row Over Chain's Noncompete Agreements

Act III Management said St. Louis, Missouri-based Panera was improperly seeking noncompetition agreements with three Panera employees, in a hiring dispute that exposed the tensions between Panera and the man that oversaw much of the company's growth.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Breweries, Wineries and Distilleries Are Changing How Pennsylvanians Enjoy a Drink

After decades of Pennsylvania's restrictive liquor laws limiting innovation, in 2016, broad changes to the Liquor Code were enacted under legislation known as Act 39 and Act 85 of 2016.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Recipe for Success: Protecting IP in the Food and Beverage Industry 

Each form of intellectual property (IP) protection—trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, design and utility patents and trade secrets—has an important role to play in protecting brands and innovation in the food and beverage industry.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Online Viagra? Glossy Startups Target Millennials

These are online prescription drug retailers, selling targeted products like sildenafil (generic Viagra), which gives those with—ahem—performance difficulties, assistance in that area, or maybe minoxidil, a hair growth drug.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Inside the Alcohol Industry's Lobbying Blitz on Cannabis

The lobbying boom, mainly involving trade associations, comes as the alcohol industry considers whether the booming legalized marijuana business represents a competitor or corollary.
10 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

McCusker Anselmi Defeats Lawsuit Over Delayed McDonald's Development

Environmental contamination from a 180,000-gallon underground oil tank on the site was ultimately revealed as the cause of the delays, Judge Bruno Mongiardo said.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Brothers' Bloody Brawl Nets $1.4M Default Judgment Against Hookah Club

The owner of Cafe Istanbul never responded to a lawsuit seeking damages for a fight that left one man sliced up by a box-cutter and his brother in jail.
5 minute read

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