A New Jersey brewery has sued the state over an expansive set of egregious new rules it adopted in July that are intended to protect restaurants—along with bars, grocers, and liquor stores—from competition. The suit was filed last week in New Jersey state court by the nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of Death of the Fox Brewing Company, a New Jersey craft brewery.
The rules, which could put many of the state's craft brewers out of business, are as awful as they are baseless. New Jersey's alcohol beverage control (ABC) board has been clear that they are neither designed nor intended to protect consumers in any way but, instead, to protect powerful, entrenched alcohol interests in the state.
