Annual Meeting Speakers to Provide Insight into Range of Issues Impacting Beverage Retailers January 26, 2018 – Bethesda, MD – American Beverage Licensees (ABL) announced additional speakers for the 2018 ABL Annual Meeting, to be held March 11-13, 2018 at Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel & Casino in New Orleans, Louisiana. Additional announcements are expected…
ABL State & Local News Archive Now Available to Members Wide-Ranging Catalog of State & Local News Includes Licensing & Regulatory Coverage January 24, 2018 – Bethesda, MD – As part of a growing effort to assist its state affiliate members with information and resources, American Beverage Licensees (ABL) announced today that it has…
• By Scot Bertram | Illinois News Network One state lawmaker says now is the time for Illinois to push forward on gaming expansion. State Senator Dave Syverson, R-Rockford, says a bill that would allow for up to six new casinos in the state already has passed the Senate and it’s simply waiting for the…
Source: Law360 By Hannah Meisel January 19, 2018 The Illinois Supreme Court found Friday that the state’s anti-hazing statute allows sorority women at an event where a Northern Illinois University fraternity pledge drank himself to death to face liability along with the frat in a suit filed by the student’s father. The state’s high…
Source: https://www.dallasnews.com/ Dana Branham, Breaking news reporter January 19th Mothers Against Drunk Driving largely supports recommendations from a group of scientists urging states to adopt laws that they say would reduce drunken driving, but MADD maintains its support for the current 0.08 drunken-driving threshold. The scientists, commissioned by the U.S. government, recommended that states…
Source: ABL January 17, 2018 American Beverage Licensees (ABL) Executive Director John Bodnovich issued the following statement regarding the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study “Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem”. “Independent beverage business owners, with strong ties to their local communities, have long been engaged in…
Source: Fox News By JOAN LOWY | Associated Press January 17th A prestigious scientific panel is recommending that states significantly lower their drunken driving thresholds as part of a blueprint to eliminate the “entirely preventable” 10,000 alcohol-impaired driving deaths in the United States each year. The U.S. government-commissioned, 489-page report by a panel of the…
By WIFR Newsroom | Posted: Tue 7:49 PM, Jan 09, 2018 Updated: Tue 10:43 PM, Jan 09, 2018 ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – For more than two decades, the city of Rockford has worked without home rule. Now leaders and business owners are taking a look at the positives and negatives of taking power back from…
Source: Law360 By Joyce Hanson January 11, 2018 More than half of earnings for waiters and bartenders come from tips, says a new report released Thursday as the U.S. Department of Labor considers reversing an Obama-era rule that prevents employers from redistributing servers’ tips to back-of-house employees. The new report from the National Employment Law…
Source: Wine & Spirits Daily January 10, 2018 The state of Illinois and an Indiana retailer will soon get another chance to present their arguments for and against Illinois’ direct-to-consumer shipping laws during an appeal hearing set for February 16. WHAT TO KNOW. Under current Illinois law, alcohol retailers in the state must obtain a…