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Bourbon. Law. Author.
Back when I was at the University of Kentucky in the early-and-mid 90’s, I had a 1979 Chevy Impala. Despite it being my first car – and sentimentally the favorite car I’ve ever owned – it always needed a lot of mechanical work. So… Continue Reading “Devil John Moonshine & Oak Rum at Barrel House Distillery.”
There’s a rule in the law that when you ask for an injunction, you can’t have been a bad guy too. In 1893 when James E. Pepper tried to protect his “Old Pepper” brand, he learned this rule the hard way. The events described… Continue Reading “James E. Pepper’s Fraud Previews The Taft Decision.”
My last post, about “How Woodford Reserve got to keep the (old) name of its distillery,” followed the 1880-81 litigation between James Pepper and Labrot & Graham over the name of the “Labrot & Graham’s Old Oscar Pepper Distillery.” James Pepper was the grandson… Continue Reading “James E. Pepper – fact or fiction?”
The “Labrot & Graham Distillery” is what Brown-Forman called its distillery in Woodford County, Kentucky, when it began producing its popular Woodford Reserve bourbon, although it has since renamed the distillery the “Woodford Reserve Distillery.” But this relatively quiet name-change 10 years ago stands in… Continue Reading “How Woodford Reserve got to keep the (old) name of its distillery.”
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