November 18, 2019 – Joseph A. Magnus & Co. started selling its whiskies in Washington, DC in 2015. Highland Park Distillery was founded by Magnus Eunson as an illicit distillery hidden inside his Orkney church in 1798. Which one has the exclusive right to use the word “Magnus” on its whiskies? That’s the question a federal judge is being asked to decide after the owners of Joseph A. Magnus & Co. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia earlier this month. The Washington-based company is suing Highland Distillers Ltd., the owner of Highland Park?