GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A winery on Old Mission Peninsula filed a lawsuit last week after Peninsula Township threatened to revoke its permit for violating noise rules – an ordinance that lawyers say a federal judge already found to be unconstitutional.

It’s the latest twist in a yearslong legal battle between Peninsula Township and 11 wineries, which held that the township’s strict agricultural zoning rules stifled business and violated their constitutional rights.

U.S. District Court Judge Paul Maloney sided with the wineries in July, awarding them nearly $50 million in damages for “an impossible to understand ordinance and arbitrary enforcement of the same.”

The latest lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan after Peninsula Township sent Bonobo Win

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