Reservation sues beer brewers for alcohol-related suffering

[GAP]

This is rich......blame the companies.......... :

Reservation sues beer brewers for alcohol-related suffering
By QMI Agency
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An aboriginal band in South Dakota has filed a $500-million lawsuit against three of the world's largest beer brewers alleging their alcohol is causing harm on the reservation.

Lawyer Tom White, who represents the Oglala Sioux Tribe, alleges the beer companies and retailers named in the lawsuit are helping to illegally import alcohol in Whiteclay, Neb., to the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcohol is prohibited.

The defendants named in the lawsuit include retailers and major beer manufacturers: Anheuser-Busch InBev, Pabst, Molson Coors and Miller Brewing Company.

The band wants $500 million in damages for the cost of health care and social services.

The lawsuit says the village of Whiteclay has a dozen residents, but in 2010 four licensed stores sold nearly five million cans of beer.
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[Jimmy_D]

If there are 4 licensed stores nearby then how is suppling them classed as illegally importing? Also just because its classed as a dry area does not mean that the locals didn't go out and purchase the alcohol themselves.

 

[Robert0288]

Yet another case of placing the blame of others rather than accepting personal responsibility.

 

[Journeyman]

Yet another case of frivolous lawsuits as the latest form of 'get rich without any effort' lottery tickets.


...with the law schools full of people willing to encourage it.

 

[Hammer Sandwich]

Defies words.

 

[Robert0288]

Yet another case of frivolous lawsuits as the latest form of 'get rich without any effort' lottery tickets.


...with the law schools full of people willing to encourage it.

That too.

 

[Jarnhamar]

What? How can alcohol be illegal?

 

[mariomike]

What? How can alcohol be illegal?

Certain areas of Toronto remained dry by law until after 2000. High Park, Davenport, West Toronto aka The Junction, Swansea:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/1999/9901a14.htm

Now, it seems like there is a bar on every corner. 

Only place you could buy a drink in the area back then was the Legion. There's a nice restaurant inside the park itself, but you still can't get beer or wine with your dinner.

 

[armyvern]

What? How can alcohol be illegal?

It's still prohibited in Old Crow, Yukon.

 

[Jarnhamar]

SO why would whole towns ban alcohol?

 

[mariomike]

SO why would whole towns ban alcohol?

The Junction is where the stockyards and slaughterhouses were until the late 1990's. The largest in Canada - hence the name "Hogtown". The concern - and it was valid from what I remember- was that working in that place could drive men to drink, and they would become public embarrassments. ( They could could be seen by passengers in the passing trains. ) When the stockyards and their men relocated north of the city to Cookstown, the area voted wet and became gentrified. Big box stores on the old site now.

 

[The Bread Guy]

SO why would whole towns ban alcohol?

To try to keep the social ills associated with alcohol out - loads of remote First Nations (some with populations in the couple of thousand) are dry.  However, other problems sometimes pop up, too....
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[mariomike]

Although alcohol was not prohibited ( except in a few places, as mentioned ) in Ontario, there were strict controls.
"LCBO and First Nations Peoples":
http://www.puncheddrunk.ca/firstnations.html

 

[AmmoTech90]

SO why would whole towns ban alcohol?

Never mind towns, some entire counties are still dry.  My wife was on course with US Air Force National Guard in Tennessee and the county was dry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state#Tennessee