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Daily Business Review

DeSantis Administration Fights Medical Marijuana Ruling for Florigrown

The Florida Department of Health is challenging a July appellate decision that found a state law requiring medical marijuana operators to grow, process and sell cannabis and derivative products runs afoul of a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Securities Suit Against Chicken Producer Is Tossed by Second Circuit Panel

The panel turned aside arguments that the courts should not apply the pleading standards of securities law to antitrust factual claims at the heart of the suit.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

ALJ Orders State to Pay Legal Fees in Medical Pot Dispute

Judge Garnett Chisenhall ruled the Florida Department of Health should pay attorney fees to Louis Del Favero Orchids Inc. after the department did not property carry out a 2017 state law that gave preference to the citrus industry for as many as two medical-marijuana licenses.
2 minute read

International Edition

Building Your Brand: Paris Leader Shares Top Tips for Junior Lawyers

One of Signature Litigation's office co-heads shares her advice for lawyers aiming to make partner.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Appellate Court Says State Should Pay $13.6M in Citrus Fight

The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in 2003 cut down 33,957 healthy citrus trees on 11,811 residential properties, as the department tried to combat citrus canker, which can cause major damage and spread rapidly.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cannabis: Florida's Growing Insurance Industry?

On Oct. 16, the Florida Supreme Court accepted review of a case that involves a key component of Florida's regulatory structure for medical marijuana licenses. Gov. Ron DeSantis' office asked the Supreme Court to take up the case, which would address the frameworks of Florida's vertical integration requirement for cannabis companies.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Baker Botts Goes to Bat for Cannabis Company in High-Stakes Spat

The relationship started off high but turned to ash as the cannabis business began to boom.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Law Firm Sues US Regulatory Agency for Records About Settlement's Gag Order

"In effect, the CFTC negotiated a private resolution that left the industry without any intelligible guidance," the law firm Kobre & Kim said in a public-records lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan federal district court.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Federal Rules Provide Useful Tools for Cannabis Cultivators

With the formal publication of the interim rules, the USDA begins its implementation of the federal hemp program. A 60-day public comment period follows the formal publication.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Does It Take to Succeed In-House in the Cannabis Industry?

The cannabis industry is on the cusp of a revolution, and as the industry grows, so too will its appetite for seasoned and ambitious legal professionals.
4 minute read

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