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By Josefa Velasquez | January 10, 2018
Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican who represents upstate New York, will be discussing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to rescind an Obama-era policy that generally kept federal enforcement from interfering with states' marijuana sales with her colleagues and “reviewing whether any legislative solution would be necessary,” a spokesman said.
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By Caroline Spiezio | January 9, 2018
With the sale of marijuana for recreational use now legal in California, have employers' rights to keep the substance out of workplace gone up in smoke?
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By Cheryl Miller | January 4, 2018
Cole, now a Sidley Austin partner, said he thought his namesake Justice Department memo outlined "a valid policy and was moving things in the right direction."
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By Lizzy McLellan | January 4, 2018
Will the Trump administration's policy change on marijuana put a chill on law firms' slow embrace of cannabis clients?
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By Cheryl Miller | January 4, 2018
John W. Vardaman III says Sessions' rescission of Obama-era guidance on marijuana puts U.S. attorneys "in a very tenuous position."
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By Josefa Velasquez | January 4, 2018
New York lawmakers who helped craft the state's medical marijuana program, joined by marijuana industry and drug reform advocates, are calling on the U.S. Congress to enact legislation that would protect legal marijuana programs in the states that have them after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to rescind Obama-era policy.
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By Robert Storace | January 3, 2018
2018 is expected to a busy year in both the courts and the state Legislature as issues like legalizing recreational marijuana to whether the state's education funding formula is fair to both students in suburban schools and their urban counterparts play out.
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By Cheryl Miller | December 28, 2017
"Our first duty as attorneys is to our clients and the ethical rules that apply to us," Khurshid Khoja, founder of Greenbridge Corporate Counsel said. "We are licensed by the state and it's our duty to protect confidentiality and to keep our clients safe." He added: "We can't have banks interfering with that."
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By Max Mitchell | December 28, 2017
The ruling reversed a decision by the Clinton County Juvenile Division, which said the Child Protective Services Law does not allow a mother's action to be considered child abuse if the child was a fetus.
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By Josefa Velasquez | December 21, 2017
The New York Law Journal takes a look back at 2017 and reviews the highlights and lowlights of the year in Albany, exclusive of state court rulings.
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