A New Mexico jury has awarded over $104 million to a businessman it found was wrongly stripped of his 5 million shares of bankrupt cannabis processor Bright Green after a handshake deal to bring him on as CEO fell apart.
A New Mexico jury has awarded over $104 million to a businessman it found was wrongly stripped of his 5 million shares of bankrupt cannabis processor Bright Green after a handshake deal to bring him on as CEO fell apart.
Cannabis giant Curaleaf on Thursday urged the Sixth Circuit to overturn an almost $32 million verdict over claims that two of its subsidiaries breached their contract with a cannabis farm, claiming the contract was unenforceable because of marijuana's federal illegality.
A Michigan state judge won't let a man throw out a suit from his brother, an attorney, alleging that the man didn't pay up on an $18.3 million agreement to buy out his portion of a cannabis business.
After destroying sales records daily over the course of three years, the retailers accused by the Cayuga Nation of running an unauthorized cannabis shop will face sanctions, a New York federal judge ruled, calling their behavior "grossly negligent and likely willful."
A coalition of attorneys representing interests in the hemp cannabinoid beverage space are urging federal lawmakers not to enact legislation that they say could shut down the industry and to allow states to continue to regulate it without obstruction.
The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for a short week of arguments, in which the justices will consider whether state and local government officials can be held personally liable for alleged religious rights violations, and whether government contractors are entitled to immediately appeal denials of derivative sovereign immunity.
The U.S. International Trade Commission's process for appointing its administrative law judges is unconstitutional, Altria Group and its NJOY vaping subsidiary alleged Friday in urging a Virginia federal court to block an ITC patent infringement proceeding against them.
A California company that manages cannabis operators challenged $10 million in taxes and penalties in the U.S. Tax Court, arguing the Internal Revenue Service stripped it of business deductions by incorrectly determining it trafficked in a controlled substance.
A Seattle cannabis dispensary has been hit with a proposed class action in Washington federal court by a customer who claims the retailer shared his private information about medical marijuana appointments and pot purchases with Google and other third parties by using online browser tracking tools on its website.
The Ninth Circuit on Friday backed California in a dispute it brought to enforce cigarette taxes against a tobacco company owned and operated by a federally recognized Native American tribe, holding that the tribal leader defendants can't claim sovereign or qualified immunity exempts them from the federal tax law.
Though counterintuitive, appellees should consider writing their answering briefs before they’ve ever seen their opponent’s opening brief, as this practice confers numerous benefits related to argument structure, time pressures and workflow, says Joshua Sohn at the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a hearing next week to consider impeachment of "rogue" federal judges, according to an announcement on Monday.
A Boston federal judge who recently announced his resignation has penned a public letter describing why he stepped down after four decades on the federal bench, saying he could no longer "bear to be restrained" from speaking out against the Trump administration.
The government funding agreement reached in the Senate on Sunday includes funding for public defenders, some of whom haven't been paid since July, and security for U.S. Supreme Court justices.
A Virginia federal judge said he would review grand jury materials in camera to see if any privileged information was used to secure the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress.
A bipartisan group of former federal judges and U.S. attorneys on Monday threw their weight behind New York Attorney General Letitia James' bid to dismiss the indictment accusing her of mortgage fraud, rebuking the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and slamming the prosecution's apparent political motivations.
An Illinois federal judge suspended all briefing deadlines Monday in Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP's $1.2 million fee dispute with a former client and a litigation funder's CEO, following the parties' signal that they've resolved their legal issues in principle.
President Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned scores of lawyers accused of attempting to interfere in the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Sidney Powell, according to a social media post created by the president's pardon attorney, Ed Martin.
Delaware's top court issued a flurry of rulings last week and heard arguments on recently passed legislation that expanded liability shields for some corporate acts while the Court of Chancery passed on another round of arguments over control of Caribbean broadcaster Caribevision.
