date:Nov 02, 2012
e brewers. (In the meantime, Soave sold its stake to BDT Capital in November 2010.)
A federal judge sided with Anheuser-Busch this year and ruled the state law was discriminatory. But the judge denied the company's request to remedy the law by granting out-of-state brewers the right to distribute their own products in Illinois. Instead, the judge left it to the General Assembly to clarify the state's distribution rules.
Legislators responded by creating a law in 2011 that banned in-state