Johnson Bros Sues Bacardi and B-F

Dear Client: WSD has learned that Johnson Brothers filed a compliant yesterday (April 4) against Bacardi and Brown-Forman in a federal court in Minnesota alleging antitrust and franchise law violations. They claim in the lawsuit that Bacardi and B-F agreed to terminate Johnson's distribution rights in their respective states - North Dakota for Bacardi, and Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota for B-F - and appoint RNDC instead. Johnson claims that the two distillers coordinated the terminations and conspired