Hobby Distillers Association v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau finds for HDA by District Court

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division has come to a decision in the Hobby Distillers Association v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau case.

OPINION & ORDER

Before the Court is Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary and Permanent Injunction (ECF No. 17), which the Court has advanced to the case’s merits as authorized by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65. For the reasons distilled below, the Court DISMISSES three of the Individual Plaintiffs for lack of standing, but GRANTS the motion as to the remaining Plaintiffs, awarding them declaratory relief and a permanent injunction. But the Court STAYS the applicability of this Order for fourteen days to allow the government to seek emergency appellate relief, if it chooses to do so.

Read the whole thing here (warning: PDF).