Medical marijuana dispensaries owned by Jushi Inc. are asking a Pennsylvania state court to block local retailers from selling and distributing a range of intoxicating hemp products, claiming these illicit shops are "deceiving consumers and unlawfully diverting sales" away from their licensed businesses.
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Medical Pot Cos. Sue To Shutdown Most Of Pa.'s Hemp Market

By Jonathan Capriel

Medical marijuana dispensaries owned by Jushi Inc. are asking a Pennsylvania state court to block local retailers from selling and distributing a range of intoxicating hemp products, claiming these illicit shops are "deceiving consumers and unlawfully diverting sales" away from their licensed businesses.

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Black Owner Of Hemp Shop Accuses LA Police Of Illicit Raids

By Jonathan Capriel

A Black entrepreneur claims that the Los Angeles Police Department conducted multiple unlawful raids on his hemp shop that ultimately put him out of business, according to a lawsuit filed in California federal court that seeks $15 million in damages and suggests that the police's targeting was racially motivated.

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Cannabis Biz Says Long Island Town Illicitly Blocked Opening

By Sam Reisman

A cannabis company alleged in a new state court lawsuit that the Long Island town of Southampton improperly invoked a local zoning law to prevent the opening of a marijuana store that had secured state approval for retail and deliveries.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

9th Circ. Qualified Immunity Ruling May Limit Phone Searches

Though the Ninth Circuit affirmed police officers’ qualified immunity claims in Olson v. County of Grant earlier this year, it also established important Fourth Amendment precedent on the use of cellphone extractions that will apply more broadly in criminal investigations and prosecutions, say attorneys at The Norton Law Firm.

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Series

Coaching Cheerleading Makes Me A Better Lawyer

At first glance, cheerleading and litigation may seem like worlds apart, but both require precision, adaptability, leadership and the ability to stay composed under pressure — all of which have sharpened how I approach my work in the emotionally complex world of mass torts and personal injury, says Rashanda Bruce at Robins Kaplan.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Law360 Pulse Exclusive: The Billable Hour

In this package, Law360 Pulse explores the demand for rainmakers, the continued increase of hourly rates and whether artificial intelligence will finally kill the billable hour. For all Law360 readers, click to access a sample story: Why This Small-Firm Lawyer Charges $3,000 Per Hour.

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Analysis

M&A Attys Hand Tasks To 'Machines' In Careful Embrace Of AI

By Al Barbarino

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a back-office tool in mergers and acquisitions legal work, but is increasingly embedded in core deal processes that help attorneys manage due diligence, draft agreements and assess risk.

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Scores On July Bar Exam Rise Amid Dip In Test Takers

By Tracey Read

The number of examinees passing the multistate bar exam in July continued to gain momentum, with near record highs seen this summer over the past 12 years, according to an announcement from the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

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Exclusive

'I'm Flabbergasted': Fla. Atty's Accusers Rip Bar For Inaction

By Phillip Bantz

More than a year after it began receiving complaints that a Florida lawyer was ghosting clients, the state bar has yet to take action — highlighting what experts call a slow-moving process that can fail to keep pace with expansive alleged frauds.

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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q2

A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the second quarter of the year.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Prosecco DOC Consortium bring an intellectual property claim against a distributor, the Serious Fraud Office bring a civil recovery claim against the ex-wife of a solicitor jailed over a £19.5 million fraud scheme, and law firm Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP sue its former client, the bankrupt Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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DOJ Swears In 3 New Board Of Immigration Appeals Members

By Britain Eakin

The Executive Office for Immigration Review announced Friday that three new Board of Immigration Appeals members — Sheila E. Gallow, Marcos Gemoets and Kathleen K. Volkert — were sworn in during a ceremony on Thursday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Is AI killing the billable hour — here's what general counsel need to know about how the use of artificial intelligence is affecting law firms' billing model. Anthropic has agreed to a deal to end copyright suits brought by authors who said their works were illegally used to train the company's large language model. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fifth Circuit vacated a pair of Biden-era regulations aimed at bolstering transparency in the short-selling market.

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Advice For 1st-Gen Lawyers Entering The Legal Profession

Nikki Nicole Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm tells her story of being a first-generation lawyer and how others like her who begin their professional journeys without the benefit of playbooks handed down by relatives who have already traveled the professional law path can turn this disadvantage into their greatest strength.

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Colorado Law Firm Faces Class Action Over Data Breach

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado law firm was hit with a proposed class action in federal court after a Utah woman claimed that the firm didn't take ample measures to protect the personal information of more than 5,000 people, which was stolen in a data breach earlier this year.

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UPenn Prof Suspended For Racist Remarks Loses Bias Claim

By Matthew Santoni

University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax lost her federal discrimination claims against the school for suspending her over disparaging comments she made about minorities, with a judge finding that she was disciplined for racist speech, not because of her own race.

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JAG Corps Sent To DC To Fill 'Critical Vacancies'

By Courtney Bublé

Military attorneys are being sent to prosecute crimes in Washington, D.C., as the Trump administration seeks to beef up prosecutions in the nation's capital as part of the federal surge of law enforcement.

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Texas Panel Nixes Buzbee's $765K Win Against Campaign Atty

By Madison Arnold

A Texas state appeals court reversed a $765,000 summary judgment awarded to Tony Buzbee in a dispute with an attorney who said she was never paid for work she did on his 2019 Houston mayoral campaign.

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Hub Hires: Prince Lobel, Rubin And Rudman, Weil

By Chris Villani

The dog days of summer did little to slow the churn in the Boston legal market. Prince Lobel added a veteran cybersecurity lawyer, Rubin and Rudman made a pair of partner hires, and Weil added more attorneys from Latham.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bar Association

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Armistice Capital LLC

Ashok Leyland

BNP Paribas SA

Beyond Hello

CVS Health Corp.

Cityblock Health Inc.

DSV A/S

Dell Technologies Inc.

Deutsche Bahn AG

Dunkin' Brands Group Inc.

Fordham University

Google LLC

Halliburton Co.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

International Association of Better Business Bureaus Inc.

JetBlue Airways Corp.

Juniper Networks Inc.

KPMG International

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

Kingspan Group PLC

Law School Admission Council Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Lloyds Pharmacy Ltd.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Midas Group Inc.

National Grid PLC

National Rifle Association of America

Nationwide Building Society

Panera Bread Co.

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Peloton Interactive Inc.

Petrofac Ltd.

RELX PLC

RWE AG

Sonos Inc.

State Bank of India

The Florida Bar

The Philadelphia Inquirer LLC

UBS Group AG

Vaxart Inc.

Walmart Inc.

Yahoo Inc.

ZEDRA

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akin Gump

Arnall Golden

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Bernstein Litowitz

Bird & Bird

Bland Richter

Brach Eichler

Bradley Arant

Bressler Amery

Brewer Attorneys

Brownstein Hyatt

Bryan Cave

Calfee Halter

Casner & Edwards

Cleary Gottlieb

Cloherty & Steinberg

Clyde & Co

Cole & Van Note

Constangy Brooks

Cozen O'Connor

Curtis Mallet-Prevost

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Duane Morris

Dykema

Elias Law Group LLP

Feldman & Pinto

Ferraro Law Firm

Foley Hoag

Fowler White Burnett

Fox Rothschild

Fox Williams

Freese & Goss

Freshfields

Fullerton Beck

Gateley PLC

Gordon Rees

Gowling WLG

Grant & Eisenhofer

Haley & Olson

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Holtzman Vogel

Jackson Lewis PC

Joseph Hage

K&L Gates

Kabateck LLP

Katten Muchin

Keller Postman

Keller Rohrback

Kelley Drye

Keoghs LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Kisob Law Firm

Kluger Kaplan

Latham & Watkins

Lee Sullivan Shea

MFG Solicitors

Mason Hayes

Mayer Brown

McCarter & English

McLaughlin & Stern

Miner Siddall

Mintz Levin

Moore & Van Allen

Morgan Lewis

Much Shelist

Napoli Shkolnik

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

Orrick Herrington

Osborne Clarke

Outten & Golden

Panish Shea

Paul Weiss

Polsinelli PC

Potter Clarkson

Prince Lobel

Reinhart Boerner

Richards Layton

Robins Kaplan

Rubin and Rudman

Russell-Cooke

Schipani & Norman

Seed IP

Seward & Kissel

Shakespeare Martineau

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Smith Gambrell

Smith Tozian

Stephenson Harwood

Stibbe NV

Sullivan & Cromwell

Tarter Krinsky

The Norton Law Firm

Troutman

Tyson & Mendes

Wagner McLaughlin

Warshaw Burstein

Weber Gallagher

Weil Gotshal

Williams & Connolly

Withersworldwide

Wolf Greenfield

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Executive Office for Immigration Review

HM Revenue & Customs

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Serious Fraud Office

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

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 Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado