Cannabis

  • April 02, 2025

    Hemp Shop's Suit Over Cops' Raid, Arrests Tossed For Good

    A Texas federal judge has dismissed with prejudice a hemp shop owner's suit alleging that city of Port Lavaca police illegally raided her shop and arrested her and an employee on suspicion of selling illegal cannabis.

  • April 02, 2025

    Justices Broaden RICO Reach To Personal Injuries

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday expanded the type of civil actions that can be brought under a federal racketeering statute, asserting that claims stemming from personal injuries are redressable if they can be shown to have caused economic harm.

  • April 02, 2025

    Supreme Court Backs FDA Block Of Flavored Vapes

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overruled a determination that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration acted arbitrarily when it rejected an e-cigarette company's applications to market flavored vape products.

  • April 01, 2025

    Meta Wins Dismissal In Cannabis Logo Copyright Dispute

    A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a copyright complaint from a "serial IP litigant" who sued Meta Platforms over a cannabis logo used on Facebook to promote a cannabis-themed cruise, saying plaintiff did not own a valid copyright for the logo.

  • April 01, 2025

    SEC Settles With Pot App Owner Over Alleged $1.6M Fraud

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled claims Tuesday against CannaCloud Inc. and its owner alleging that he duped investors into pouring $1.65 million into the business, but then took $1.5 million to pay off his own debts and go to casinos.

  • April 01, 2025

    Smoke Shop Says Hookah Maker's 'Litigation Mill' Is A Fraud

    A smoke shop among nearly 1,000 sued by GS Holistic LLC over alleged sales of counterfeit products is suing the hookah maker in California federal court, saying GS Holistic's "litigation mill" has committed fraud against the courts through false accusations.

  • April 01, 2025

    AFL-CIO Backs Oregon's Cannabis Labor Peace Law

    The AFL-CIO has jumped into a legal battle to defend against a constitutional challenge seeking to block implementation of a voter-approved Oregon state law that requires cannabis businesses to have labor peace agreements.

  • March 31, 2025

    US Steel Beats Fired Medical Pot Patient's Fed. ADA Fight

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday granted U.S. Steel summary judgment on a medical cannabis patient's Americans with Disabilities Act claims in a lawsuit alleging the steel giant wrongfully fired him for his medical marijuana license and off-the-job marijuana use.

  • March 31, 2025

    Origins Tech Can't Dodge Counterclaims In $4M Dispute

    Origins Tech Inc. and its officers can't get counterclaims against them tossed in a $4 million suit over losses from a loan and the canceled acquisition of a cannabis license, a Utah federal judge ruled on Monday, giving a shareholder the opportunity to amend his counterclaims.

  • March 31, 2025

    Justices Decline Chance To Clarify Medical Pot Protections

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal arguing that congressional spending legislation bars federal prosecutors from bringing cases against state-compliant medical marijuana operations.

  • March 31, 2025

    Calif. Pot Co. Seeks Receivership, Blames Merger 'Disaster'

    A cannabis producer in California has moved to enter receivership in state court, disclosing more than $173 million in liabilities and saying a 2023 merger with its parent company proved to be a "financial disaster."

  • March 31, 2025

    Disbarred Fraudster Gets 25 Years For $18M Hemp Scam

    A disbarred attorney with a history of investor fraud was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a scheme in which he solicited more than $18 million from investors by claiming to own a hemp farm that didn't exist and overhyping an edibles company.

  • March 28, 2025

    Cannabis Equipment Biz Can't Speed Up Canada Import Case

    The U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled that a cannabis equipment company cannot expedite its case challenging the hurdles it faces importing from Canada, saying the business has not presented good cause to have the matter fast-tracked.

  • March 28, 2025

    Pot Co.'s Challenge To DEA Admin Procedures Dismissed

    A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday dismissed a cannabis company's challenge to the lawfulness of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration internal administrative law proceedings, finding that the company had failed to show how those procedures would harm it.

  • March 28, 2025

    Nitrous Oxide Makers, Sellers Sued Over 'Whippet' Death

    The estate of a woman who died after inhaling nitrous oxide as a recreational drug is suing makers and sellers of the canisters, alleging they are knowingly selling them to be used as "whippets."

  • March 28, 2025

    Vape Co. Sued Over Burns From Exploding Battery

    A North Carolina man is suing a Chinese vape company and its American affiliate in federal court, alleging that a vape they made and sold him exploded when the battery inside it short-circuited, leaving him with second- and third-degree burns.

  • March 27, 2025

    Vaping Interests Take Challenge To FDA Rule To 5th Circ.

    A coalition of vaping interests challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's marketing and recordkeeping regulations has taken the dispute to the Fifth Circuit after a lower district judge tossed the lawsuit, which claimed many in the industry were prohibited from seeking FDA approval for multiple products at once because of the high cost of applying.

  • March 27, 2025

    Minn. Pot Regulators Submit Proposed Rules For Retail Sale

    The Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management, or OCM, has submitted draft rules for the retail sale of adult-use cannabis products to an administrative law judge for final approval.

  • March 27, 2025

    Curaleaf Units Slam Pot Farm's Sanctions Bid In $32M Suit

    Two Curaleaf units are pushing back on a Michigan farm's bid for sanctions following a $32 million verdict in its favor, saying the farm is the party dragging proceedings out by seeking sanctions over a disagreement on the law.

  • March 26, 2025

    Sotomayor Urges Caution On Nondelegation Doctrine Revamp

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned her colleagues during oral arguments Wednesday against using a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's administration of a broadband subsidy program as a way to resurrect the long-dormant nondelegation doctrine. Several conservative justices, however, seemed willing to disregard that admonition.

  • March 26, 2025

    2 Class Actions Over Cannabis Cos.' Product Labels Dropped

    The plaintiffs who were leading two proposed class actions in Illinois federal court alleging that cannabis companies have mislabeled their products to get around Illinois state law have dropped their cases.

  • March 26, 2025

    RI Pot License Program Unconstitutional, 1st Circ. Told

    A California lawyer who has brought constitutional challenges to state and local cannabis licensure programs across the country told the First Circuit on Tuesday that a lower district judge erred in dismissing an action against Rhode Island marijuana regulators.

  • March 26, 2025

    Fla. Appeals Court Upholds Fees For Medical Pot Businesses

    Florida's intermediate appellate court on Wednesday affirmed that the state's Department of Health acted within its authority when it enacted rules requiring medical marijuana dispensaries to pay more than a million dollars in license renewal fees every other year.

  • March 26, 2025

    Medical Pot Center Not Exempt From 2017 Michigan Sales Tax

    A Michigan appeals panel has rejected a medical cannabis provisioning center's argument that it was exempt from sales tax in 2017, saying it is not entitled to the same exemption as primary caregivers and could not rely on a 2011 nonbinding letter in its argument.

  • March 25, 2025

    NC Justices Agree To Hear Traffic Stop Smell Test Appeal

    The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to take up an appeal of a man's conviction for possession of a firearm by a felon after he argued that the smell of cannabis and cologne are not sufficient to justify searching his vehicle at a traffic stop.

Expert Analysis

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies

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    An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

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