The dispensary inside the old bank, currently known as FlynnStoned Greenpoint, struggles to access basic banking services itself. “We’re legal drug dealers that are treated as if we’re illegal drug dealers,” says Joshua Wilson, who works with JTRE Holdings, the real estate company that owns the weed store. “It really feels like we’re the redheaded stepchild.”
A chain of CBD stores can use an unapproved wage settlement to block a worker’s fraud suit despite precedent requiring court permission for the pay portion of the deal, an appellate panel said Wednesday.
A US agency said Monday it has ended an investigation of possible Big Law discrimination in hiring without action, acknowledging that most firms failed to comply with data requests.
Brandsafway Industries LLC and a former industrial painter for the company agreed to drop a lawsuit alleging the painter was unlawfully terminated for using medical marijuana to treat her anxiety.
A dissenting Eighth Circuit judge chided the court’s decision to vacate a cannabis user’s firearm possession conviction, saying the circuit’s precedent has caused it “paralysis.”
Some of the United States’ largest medical and adult-use marijuana growers and sellers schemed with each other to prevent smaller companies from gaining a foothold in Ohio dispensaries and keep prices high, the state’s attorney general said.
Scott Barshay, the first M&A lawyer to lead storied Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss, confronts an early test to his no-nonsense approach after Brad Karp’s surprise exit.
The mixed legal status of cannabis has divided circuit courts over whether state and local regulation of dispensary licenses violates the dormant Commerce Clause.
Brad Karp is stepping down from his leadership role at Paul Weiss after a trove of emails released by the Justice Department detailed the lawyer’s close connections to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Paul Weiss leader Brad Karp helped Jeffrey Epstein protect his plea deal on sex trafficking charges against legal attacks in the months before the disgraced financier died in jail, recently released emails show.
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