Recent Supreme Court Articles
Supreme Court Takes Up the 1868 Home-Still Ban
For 158 years, it has been a federal crime for an American to run a still in his own house. On October 19, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Congress ever had the power to make it one. The justices took up the government's appeal of the Fifth Circuit decision that struck the 1868 ban down,
Ohio Man Takes Home Distilling Ban to Supreme Court
An Ohio Brewery Owner, a Copper Pot Still, and the Future of Federal Power It is not every day that a man's desire to make a small batch of bourbon at home winds up at the steps of the United States Supreme Court. But John Ream, an accomplished aerospace engineer and brewery owner from Ohio, would