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Indianapolis-based Monarch Beverage Co.-the state's largest beer and wine distributor-has for years attempted to sell liquor in Indiana, and until this year has been shot down by the Legislature and in two lawsuits.
But Monarch experienced some good news in 2016, as a court case involving one of its affiliates, Spirited Sales LLC, made its way through the legal system.
A Marion Superior Court judge ruled in August in favor of Spirited Sales in its quest to gain a wholesale liquor permit after a judge found the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission's decision to deny it a permit "arbitrary...