Beer sales in Vietnam are down before the lunar new year, bar owners said, as a tough new drunk-driving law threatens to put a lid on celebrations in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for beer.
Read moreRapper Damon Dash sued Entertainment One Reality Productions in L.A. Superior Court, claiming it broke its promise that it would not make his son drink alcohol while filming the series “Growing Up Hip Hop.”
Read more
Controversial laws that forced Sydney bars to close early and limited the drinks they could serve in a bid to curb alcohol-fueled violence ended Tuesday after complaints they had ruined the city’s once-vibrant nightlife.
Read more
In his latest dispatch, Courthouse News’ western bureau chief recalls the Maui locals who aided his descent into a life of brewing sin.
Read more
The Eighth Circuit ruled Wednesday that a Missouri law barring bars and restaurants from advertising alcohol at discounted rates through specials or coupons violates their right to free speech.
Read moreDirectors are selling Tiffany & Co,, too cheaply through an unfair process to Moёt Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, for $135 a share or $14.5 billion, shareholders say in a federal class action.
Read more
German police on Thursday stopped an inebriated 27-year-old man who was caught riding an electric scooter on a motorway.
Read more
A convenience store claims in a putative class action lawsuit filed Friday that Iowa’s state-owned alcoholic beverages distributor is illegally raising liquor prices charged to retailers.
Read more
Brazil’s wine production is far smaller than that of Argentina or Chile, but the southern part of the country is a sort of oasis for grape production owing to its cool climate and favorable growing conditions.
Read more
Eight people died and hundreds were taken to hospitals in the Philippines after drinking coconut wine believed to contain high levels of methanol, authorities said Monday.
Read more
Households with higher carbon footprints are eating more sweets, drinking more alcohol and dining more frequently at restaurants than those with lower carbon footprints, according to a study released Friday.
Read more
A hearing to approve a settlement between a craft beer brewer and customers who say they were hoodwinked into believing the beer was made in an exotic location morphed into a theater to litigate a much larger issue: whether large consumer class actions actually benefit consumers.
Read more
The Seventh Circuit appeared convinced at oral arguments Tuesday that Chicago cannot be held liable for a police officer’s off-duty misconduct, placing in jeopardy a historic $44.7 million verdict against the city for a drunken cop’s shooting of his friend.
Read more
Washington has become a force in the wine industry. The state has the nation’s second-highest number of wineries, after California. But California, which has around 3,700 wineries, remains much bigger than anyone else in the United States, selling more than $40 billion worth of wine in this country.
Read moreA mother sued Chi Sigma Phi sorority and California State University Fullerton in Orange County Court, claiming her daughter died of alcohol poisoning from a sorority initiation.
Read moreA federal judge has dismissed opposing motions for summary judgment in a lawsuit against Napa County by vineyard owners who say the county’s law prohibiting helicopter takeoffs and landings on their property hurts their ability to spray their crops. The lawsuit will move to trial.
Read more
The French government has quietly abandoned a campaign urging people to refrain from drinking alcohol in January, after winemakers pushed President Emmanuel Macron to drop a plan they say promotes “total abstinence.”
Read moreA California appeals court upheld the denial of Shia LaBeouf’s anti-SLAPP motion in a case relating to an altercation he had with a bartender who refused to serve the actor and his companion alcohol. LaBeouf called the bartender a “racist” and video footage of the incident was posted on the internet and broadcast on TMZ. The bartender sued for assault and slander.
Read more