Pressure Points: Has Kroger Opened Pandora’s Box?

Dear Client:Longtime bev-alc attorney Marc Sorini of McDermett Will & Emery took to the stage at the Craft Brewers Conference to hightop some of the legal issues percolating in the beer business. Marc started by laying down a premise (Marc typically represents suppliers), that the three-tier system is "always evolving." His associate underlings researched state bev-alc law from the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933, and he found that many (if not most) states didn't have a mandated three-tier system