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How High Is Too High? Crunching Marijuana Taxes

How high should marijuana tax rates be? That's a question more and more states are grappling with as they extend approval for medical marijuana use to adult recreational consumption. A consultant who worked on California's rate explains the "Goldilocks standard."
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Holland & Knight Real Estate Attorney Lives for the Deal

Holland & Knight partner Vivian de las Cuevas-Diaz makes her mark in a male-dominated legal sector.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Telemedicine Regulatory Bill Gets Final Legislative OK

The New Jersey Assembly on Thursday gave final legislative approval to a bill that would impose rules and regulations on the growing practice of "telemedicine," where patients remotely receive medical evaluations or counseling from health care providers.
3 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Calls for Truce as Ex-Colonel's Battle Over Lewes Dog Park Ends

A retired Army colonel who for more than three years has fought state and local authorities over the development of a large piece of land near his quiet Lewes home lost his final legal battle Thursday in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ali at Williams Trial: Good to Have Friends in a 'Powerful Place'

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams couldn't have found a better friend than Mohammed N. Ali. Whenever Williams wanted an escape from Philadelphia to the sunny beaches of Punta Cana, or if he was in the market for a new couch, or even if he just needed some cash, the Feasterville businessman was there to accommodate the district attorney, Ali testified in federal court Thursday morning.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Smith, PICS Case No. 17-0951 (Pa. Super. May 31, 2017) Ott, J. (10 pages).

Separate search warrant was not required to conduct DNA analysis for identification purposes where individual did not have protectable privacy interest in identification. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Leone, PICS Case No. 17-0922 (C.P. Northampton Jan. 9, 2017) Roscioli, J. (5 pages).

A single trial in a criminal matter was proper where trying multiple charges together would allow the commonwealth to present the full context of its investigation and provide the jury with the complete story surrounding the alleged crimes. The court denied defendant's motion to sever.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Tepper v. Phila. Bd. of Pensions and Retirement, PICs Case No. 17-0962 (Pa. Commw. June 2, 2017) Cohn Jubelirer, J. (17 pages).

Trial court properly affirmed the board's decision that collateral estoppel prevented officer from relitigating whether he was acting "in office or employment" when he murdered his neighbor after a personal argument while off-duty because a federal jury hearing the victim's family's civil rights complaint determined that officer was a state actor and collateral estoppel applied. Affirmed.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commonwealth v. Forsythe, PICS Case No. 17-0947 (Pa. Super. June 1, 2017) Lazarus, J. (11 pages).

The trial court erred in suppressing evidence found on defendant's person after a vehicle stop since the arresting officer was acting under a municipal drug task force agreement that did not require county ratification and, thus, his conduct did not violate the Municipal Police Jurisdiction Act. The appellate court reversed the trial court's order of suppression.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In the Interest of S.G., PICS Case No. 17-0930 (C.P. Carbon May 10, 2017) Matika, J. (21 pages).

In this dependency proceeding, father's failure to adequately address his child's mental health needs met the criteria for placing the child in a residential facility, which was the least restrictive placement.
5 minute read

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