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The White Mountain Apache Tribe on Wednesday hit McKinsey & Co. with a RICO suit over the firm's alleged role in the tribe's opioid epidemic in San Francisco federal court, claiming it aided opioid makers in executing a marketing strategy to boost sales of the addictive painkillers, joining a number of jurisdictions in the growing multidistrict litigation.
Cozen O'Connor aided cannabis company Planet 13 Holdings Inc. in registering as a domestic issuer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and helped technology company Dutchie roll out its online cannabis payment platform, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Cannabis Groups of the Year.
If hemp and marijuana were berries and nuts, Oregon's export ban on cannabis might be considered unconstitutional, but in reality there are no dormant Commerce Clause protections for Schedule 1 drugs, say Oregon cannabis regulators who have asked a federal court to toss a cannabis wholesaler's lawsuit.
Data from New York regulators' first-ever annual cannabis report shows that less than 1% of those who applied for permits to sell recreational marijuana secured the coveted Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary, or CAURD, licenses.
A man hit by a pickup truck while walking across an ice-covered parking lot will get to continue his lawsuit against the companies that managed the parking lot, a Michigan state appeals court ruled, finding that the source of his injury, a vehicle crash, does not terminate his claims of premises liability.