This is NOT legal advice. This is an excerpt from an email written by a prominent, San Francisco Bay Area attorney. The excerpt is published by permission. The author is not identified because the attorney does not want this to be construed as legal advice. Below are the key definitions under the CCPA that would […]

Note: Mailchimp’s terminology is frequently confusing throughout its Terms of Service and other extensive legal verbiage. The term “Member” is often used by Mailchimp in reference to the party sending mails. In some contexts, this is also called “Customer.” Customer can also refer to prospective customers visiting the Mailchimp site before becoming a Member. To […]

Full reports from Finistere and AgFunder: AgFunder Report Finistere Report The wine industry needs AgTech — innovative products, systems, processes and other effective and efficient ideas and developments — to pull it out of its current economic stagnation. To do that, wine needs more investment. Consider wine’s investment dilemma: the top 33 VC-funded wine companies […]

10/31/19 UPDATE to: Bryant Family Vineyards case against financial consultant booted out of San Francisco, transferred to NY Attorneys for Bryant Family Vineyards played their last cards in a last ditch attempt to keep their lawsuit against consultant Lauren Ridenhour from being transferred to New York. The Bryant attorneys have asked the San Francisco Federal […]

Lauren Ridenhour, a former financial consultant to Donald I. Bryant Jr., and his wife, Bettina Sulser Bryant has been granted her request to have a contract dispute moved from San Francisco Federal District Court to New York federal court where Ridenhour is suing the Bryants. Ridenhour had asked the San Francisco court either to dismiss the […]

The attorney for Lauren Ridenhour, the financial consultant who claims that Bryant Family Vineyards wrongly terminated her services, has filed a letter with the San Francisco U.S. District Court alleging that Wine Industry Insight’s articles are evidence that Bryant Family Winery’s attorneys are engaged in a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP). Bryant Family Winery’s […]

Other articles in this new, three-part series: Sulser Bryant’s imaginary conspiracy Sulser Bryant sues to silence the whistleblower who once saved her $3 million NOTE: This three-part update is based primarily on new court filings and judicial decisions. The accuracy, context and content of these articles are improved because our previous coverage prompted multiple knowledgeable […]

Other articles to be published in this new, three-part series: Sulser Bryant sues to silence the whistleblower who once saved her $3 million SLAPP Shot? How Sulser Bryant’s San Francisco lawsuit against her former financial consultant may violate state law NOTE: This three-part update is based primarily on new court filings and judicial decisions. The […]

Other articles to be published in this new, three-part series: SLAPP Shot? How Sulser Bryant’s curiously redundant San Francisco lawsuit against her former financial consultant may violate state law Embarrassment appears to have forced Sulser Bryant to blame her San Francisco lawsuit on a Wine Industry Insight conspiracy?clumsy conspiracy theory worthy of a vaudeville pratfall […]