The quantitative details and causal link to President Taft's later decision should be checked in the cited case and decision.
Haara reports Judge Taft's month-by-month figures and connects the decision's origin-disclosure reasoning to the later Taft whiskey decision.
In the Pepper–Peebles record, bottles represented as pure Old Pepper distilled by James Pepper incorporated whiskey bought from other distilleries over a nineteen-month period, and those false origin guarantees undermined trademark enforcement.
Chapter 9, “Bourbon Law Reins in Fake Distillers and Secret Sourcing” — Pepper–Peebles sourcing and false origin guarantees
Chapter 9, “Bourbon Law Reins in Fake Distillers and Secret Sourcing” — Pepper–Peebles sourcing and false origin guarantees
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