Thank you for the support on this. There is Supreme Court precedent supporting basic first amendment rights in this case (see 44 Liquormart v Rhode Island in 1996). But even though Virginia has all but said they agree with me, they are trying to bury me and my attorney in paperwork. I handed over 65,000 of absolutely useless documents to them. It is data on sales by the hour (they wanted by the minute). I gave them three years of information. They wanted ten years but my point of sale doesn't keep that info beyond three. They wanted to settle with me but it would have been an incomplete victory as laws would have still have to make it through Richmond post dropping the suit. The best thing for Virginia to do is to concede. The further they delay, the more money the state is wasting defending asinine regulations that serve no purpose. The fact that it is against the law to advertise the price of a glass of pinot grigio at happy hour makes no sense. And Virginia is making it worse by trying to defend it.
-Geoff Tracy - Chef Geoff's
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