In Robust Missouri Dispensary 3 v. St. Louis County, the court sided with the plaintiff, concluding that only one local government is permitted under state law to impose an additional 3% sales tax on the retail sale of marijuana.        

“The Justice Department will not hesitate to check unlawful consolidation and monopolization in the health care market that threatens to harm vulnerable patients, their families, and health care workers, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

       

Cravath poached a team from Linklaters while Davis Polk opened a finance practice in London, in a sign of the U.K. market becoming more important for Wall Street firms.

       

Ted Olson, who argued Bush v. Gore, Citizens United and other landmark Supreme Court cases, is remembered as a legal giant after his death Wednesday.        

The protesters said Akin and A&O Shearman both received the worst possible rating in a report on which law firms take on fossil fuel related work.

       

"The court could answer each of these lingering questions in favor of either Johnson or Hertz. But at this stage, the court need not, and should not, definitively resolve these questions. Instead, Missouri state courts should have the first opportunity to determine these important issues of state law," U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark for the Eastern District of Missouri said.

       

“Every regulation is going to be questioned. And that'll be a better environment for many businesses once the regulations are wiped away. But they're going to have to adapt their businesses to exploit that," said Sean West, co-founder of Hence Technologies.

       

While the lawsuit is new, Terrance DeAngelo's claims echo many of the allegations made against Kline & Specter in the firm's heated dispute with another of its former associates, Thomas Bosworth.

       

Vidal, a former partner with Winston & Strawn in Silicon Valley, announced in a LinkedIn post that she would depart in December. Deputy Director Derrick Brent will succeed her as head of the USPTO.

       

"I will always remember that the appeals that I hear and the decisions that we make have real-life consequences—not just on the parties or the litigants—but also on the trial court judges and how the decisions affect them on the front lines," Middlesex County Juvenile Court Judge Gloria Tan said regarding her nomination to the Massachusetts Appeals Court.

       

“All signs—most notably the recent surge in bitcoin's price—point to a new day for bitcoin specifically and crypto in general, said Tal J. Lifshitz, a partner at Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton.

       

"Not only are we seeing lawyers busier, we're seeing them busier across a pretty broad cross section of practices,” Citi's Gretta Rusanow noted.

       

John Ruzich comes to the controversial Saudi-backed pro golf organization from Legends Hospitality, a provider of food and beverage services to venues, where he was legal chief for 12 years.

       

The pick could be a surprise for many career DOJ attorneys. Gaetz has been a staunch defender of Trump in recent years.

       

       

       

Partners watched closely as Teresa Ribera Rodri guez, a lawyer by training who has no background in antitrust, talked of the need for a new instrument to address killer acquisitions.

       

The Herbert Smith Freehills agreement with Kramer Levin follows a set path that is becoming the norm for law firm combinations.

       

The International Trade Commission is empowered to block the importation into the United States of products that infringe U.S. intellectual property rights, In the past, the ITC generally instituted investigations without questioning the importation allegations in the complaint, however in several recent cases, the ITC declined to institute an investigation as to certain proposed respondents due to inadequate pleading of importation.

       

CEO Joe Hinrichs said the company's hiring of an 18-year veteran of its legal department as legal chief "highlights our confidence in the exceptional depth of talent within our organization. We are fortunate to have an outstanding team of railroaders poised to harness our current momentum and propel us toward even greater success."