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How States Are Regulating the Environmental Impacts of a Newly Legalized Industry

This column surveys some of the ways states have chosen to regulate the environmental impacts of cannabis legalization in an effort to understand which issues have been prime targets for regulation, where some regulatory inconsistencies between the states exist, and what may be growing targets for regulation in the future.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Hospice Doctors Seek Exemption From Drug Database

The requirement for physicians to check the database is aimed, at least in part, at preventing drug abusers from “doctor shopping” to improperly get controlled substances.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Antitrust Yearly Wrap-Up: Active on All Fronts

Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz write: Matching expectations, 2018 was an active year filled with contentious merger reviews, increased civil/criminal enforcement actions, and pivotal policy shifts. Here's what to remember about 2018 and what to expect in 2019.
12 minute read

National Law Journal

US House Democrats Just Made It Easier for Investigators to Depose Witnesses

For a decade now, US House rules required a member to be present for a deposition. Not anymore.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Sues Opioid Makers Over Marketing

Attorney General Chris Carr hired The Barnes Law Group, The Cooper Firm, Franklin Law and Beasley, Allen four months ago to go after drugmakers.
3 minute read

Law.com

Opioid Judge Stays Discovery Due to Gov't Shutdown

U.S. District Judge Dan Polster also added two more bellwether cases for discovery to go forward.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Recent Restructurings in the Pharmaceutical Industry

In this issue of the Bankruptcy Update, Edward E. Neiger focuses on recent restructurings in the pharmaceutical industry, including Aralez Pharmaceuticals, Egalet Corporation and Synergy Pharmaceuticals.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Houston Attorney Wins Appellate Ruling Against 6 Ex-Clients, But Loses Separate Appeal Filed by 4,000 Other Ex-Clients

Both decisions center on George Fleming and his former law firm, which represented 8,051 clients who agreed to settle their claims against drugmaker Wyeth after using the prescription diet drug “fen-phen,” which caused heart problems.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

In Merck Case, Supreme Court Tackles Shareholder Access to Corporate Documents

The dispute involves a Merck shareholder and his opposition to Merck's $8.4 billion acquisition of Cubist Pharmaceuticals.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

AbbVie Promotes GC to Vice Chairwoman, CLO in Executive Restructuring

Pharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc. has announced that general counsel Laura Schumacher was promoted to the role of vice chairwoman, external affairs and chief legal officer.
3 minute read

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