A Pennsylvania appellate court appeared uncertain on Wednesday whether a rule promulgated by state health regulators mandating every medical marijuana dispensary maintain its own medical professional for patient consultations was reasonable and consistent with state law.
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Pa. Court Weighs Medical Marijuana Dispensary Staffing Rule

By Sam Reisman

A Pennsylvania appellate court appeared uncertain on Wednesday whether a rule promulgated by state health regulators mandating every medical marijuana dispensary maintain its own medical professional for patient consultations was reasonable and consistent with state law.

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Judge Won't Revive Price Discrimination Suit Against Juul

By Matthew Perlman

An Illinois federal court refused on Wednesday to reconsider a ruling tossing a gas station distributor's lawsuit accusing Juul Labs of giving a rival wholesaler a better deal on e-cigarettes, saying it is still unclear why the distributor removed key allegations from its last complaint.

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THC Acid Company Sues Hemp Grower Over Contract Breach

By Mike Curley

A Colorado tetrahydrocannabinolic acid product maker is suing its hemp-growing business partner, saying the grower breached their agreement by starting its own manufacturing and storage facility and blocked it from participating in $270 million federal litigation.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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LITIGATION

Cresco Again Seeks Toss Of THC Potency False Ad Suit

By Mike Curley

Cresco Labs Inc. is once again pushing for dismissal of a proposed class action alleging that it deliberately mislabels its cannabis oil products to get around Illinois THC possession limits, saying the plaintiff's claims are clearly preempted by state law.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3G Capital

American Bar Association

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Barron's

Bayer AG

Chevron Corp.

Cresco Labs Inc.

Deel Inc.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman

HSW International Inc.

International Business Machines Corp.

JUUL Labs Inc.

Jana Partners LLC

McDonald's Corp.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Noble Energy Inc.

Outliers Inc.

Overstock.com Inc.

Pershing Square Capital Management LP

Red Hat Inc.

Renesas Electronics Corp.

Renewable Energy Group Inc.

SABMiller

Starbucks Corp.

State Bar of Texas

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The New York Times Co.

Toshiba Corp.

Ultimate Fighting Championship Ltd.

Unilever PLC

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

Walmart Inc.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arete Law Group

Cravath Swaine

Dalton & Associates PA

Feldman & Associates PLLC

Foley & Lardner

Goldstein & Russell

Gordon Rees

Grasso Law PC

Hawke McKeon

Koffsky Schwalb

Kroger Gardis

Manning Gross

Maschoff Brennan

McCarter & English

Mulliken Weiner

Munger Tolles

Murphy Ball Stratton

Paul Weiss

Quarles & Brady

Quinn Emanuel

Ramey LLP

Reed Smith

Saul Ewing

Silver Golub

Skadden Arps

Stephan Zouras

Todd & Weld

Wiggin & Dana

Winston & Strawn

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Connecticut Insurance Department

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Illinois Department of Agriculture

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

Minnesota Attorney General's Office

Pennsylvania Department of Health

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana