Hemp manufacturers, distributors and retailers filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on March 1 against New York cannabis regulators for enacting regulations that effectively shuttered a large portion of the industry “overnight” in December, with the state now engaged in warrantless raids, the complaint alleges. The New York State Cannabis Control…

Who’s Running for Judge in Metro Atlanta? Meet the Election Candidates | Daily Report Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2024/03/04/whos-running-for-judge-in-metro-atlanta-meet-the-election-candidates/ NEWS Candidate qualifying runs through March 8 for judicial incumbents and challengers interested in running for election in the May 21, 2024, nonpartisan primary. March 04, 2024 at 01:27 PM 5 minute…

An ex-U.S. congressman avoided having to pay the full rate of attorney fees for the work of an Am Law 50 firm after a federal district court in Tampa dismissed his lawsuit over the alleged “vitriolic, hateful, false, and maliciously defamatory statements” by his political opponents during his 2018 congressional campaign.…

Perkins Coie is shuttering its Shanghai office, where it employs one dually based partner, two patent consultants and one other lawyer.  The firm also lists three other partners connected to its Shanghai office but all three are primarily based in the U.S. 

A legal marketing services provider has accused its former senior vice president of misappropriating confidential client information, allowing for the information to be released to competitors, in a trade secret suit. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar…

Attorneys who led a shareholder to take down Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation plan in the Court of Chancery have asked for stock worth well over $5 billion, stressing it’s a fraction of what they could seek under Delaware legal standards. Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, Friedman Oster & Tejtel and…