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Cheryl Miller, based in Sacramento, covers the state legislature and emerging industries, including autonomous vehicles and marijuana. She authors the weekly cannabis newsletter Higher Law. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @CapitalAccounts
September 1, 2017 | National Law Journal
From one U.S. attorney general to another, Eric Holder Jr. recently offered Jeff Sessions some leadership advice. Holder's observations were not solicited. "I urge you not to force them to further defend the indefensible—the president's inhumane and unjust executive orders," the Covington & Burling partner wrote to Sessions. Holder's letter, written on behalf of the California Senate, was attached to an amicus brief California lawmakers filed in support of Chicago's challenge to Trump administration immigration policies.
By Mike Scarcella and Cheryl Miller
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September 1, 2017 | The Recorder
A federal judge has sanctioned two California lawyers for civil contempt rooted in their roles in posting secretly recorded videos of abortion providers that had been barred from public release by an injunction. Judge William Orrick, however, in his sanctions order, slashed the fees requested by the Morrison & Foerster team that represented the plaintiff, the National Abortion Federation, in the suit.
By Cheryl Miller
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August 29, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
"He's a litigator by nature, and a fighter," a former law partner of Sylvester Turner, the Houston mayor, once recalled. Turner, a Harvard Law School graduate who previously worked at then-Fulbright & Jaworski, before co-founding his own firm, is the public face now of Houston's response to Hurricane Harvey. His resiliency is being tested in ways his law partner couldn't have envisioned. Catastrophic flooding from the storm has crippled courts and shuttered law firms. Here are highlights from Turner's ties to the law.
By C. Ryan Barber and Cheryl Miller
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August 28, 2017 | The Recorder
As California lawmakers moved Monday to shield the immigration statuses of litigants and witnesses in open court, debate continued to swirl over President Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Several former federal judges offered their thoughts on the president's grant of clemency.
By Cheryl Miller
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August 22, 2017 | The Recorder
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Tuesday pushed back against criticism of her pleas to federal authorities to stop courthouse arrests of undocumented immigrants, telling a Sacramento gathering that she's challenging arrest policies, not immigration laws.
By Cheryl Miller
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August 1, 2017 | The Recorder
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has loomed as a threat to the legalized marijuana industry. But Sessions, at the helm of the U.S. Justice Department since February, hasn't taken any overt action to undermine state regulations, giving some hope to cannabis advocates that the longtime critic of recreational cannabis will not interfere in state schemes.
By Cheryl Miller
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July 31, 2017 | The Recorder
We asked four attorneys from California, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Florida for their thoughts on what's happening now in the industry, what they'd like to see happen and what will happen five years from now.
By Cheryl Miller
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July 28, 2017 | The Recorder
A regional IRS executive told a gathering of cannabis lawyers on Friday that the agency is not out to target them, despite their work with clients whose marijuana businesses remain illegal under federal law.
By Cheryl Miller
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July 27, 2017 | The Recorder
More than 150 attorneys, including many from the Bay Area, will be in Denver on Friday for the National Cannabis Bar Association's first-ever Cannabis Law Institute. The two-day event at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law will put a spotlight on the business of marijuana law, a reflection of new client opportunities for firms that want a piece of the legalized recreational and medical industry.
By Cheryl Miller
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July 13, 2017 | The Recorder
An Airbnb host who refused to rent her Southern California house to a woman because she is Asian will pay $5,000 in damages and take a college-level course in Asian-American studies, the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing said Thursday in announcing the agreement.
By Cheryl Miller
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