Month: January 2022

Shoulder Pain After Wreck? Here’s What to Do Next

Shoulder pain is common after almost any kind of car accident. Because your shoulders are connected to your neck and back, they are vulnerable to the impacts and jolts of both minor and severe crashes. Yet unlike readily visible injuries, such as cuts and major fractures, many shoulder injuries aren’t immediately obvious, and can be difficult …

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Psilocybin Equity Bill Introduced to Oregon Legislature

By Brett Mulligan GREEN LIGHT LAW GROUP Oregon State Senator Akasha Lawrence-Spence just introduced Senate Bill 1580 to the Oregon legislature. If passed the bill will establish the “Task Force on Psilocybin Equity” that will research problems relating to access and equity in Oregon’s emerging psilocybin program. The task force will complete a study and provide policy …

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Nevada Marijuana Dispensary Fined $45K For Self-Reported Violation

Common sense should dictate this retailer be given a small fine as a way of indicating that honesty is the best policy. All this does is persuade good operators to hide infractions and bad operators to increase their bad behaviour as they see upside in good behaviour. Marijuana Retail Report State regulators this week tried …

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Arizona State Senator Proposes a Bill to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender

Crypto Potato reports A state senator has introduced a bill in Arizona that seeks to make bitcoin a legal tender. Although the US federal law doesn’t allow the states to create their currencies, the bill may spark an interesting discussion. State Senator Wendy Rogers, a Republican, has moved a draft bill numbered SB 1341 that seeks to …

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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee To Consider Legislation On Unfair Competition in App Market  

AUTHOR  Nicholas Xenakis   January 31 While much of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s meeting next Thursday, February 3, will focus on the pending Supreme Court nomination, the Committee is still scheduled to mark up and vote on the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710)—which purports to address unfair competition in the app market.  This vote follows a particularly …

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Village of Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.

102 S.Ct. 1186, 71 L.Ed.2d. 362 Issue Whether the Village of Hoffman Estates’ ordinance regulating the sale of products displayed with or in proximity to literature encouraging illegal drugs is overbroad or void for vagueness? On February 20, 1978 the village of Hoffman Estates, Cooke County, Illinois (village) enacted an ordinance regulating items “designed or …

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These 2 judges are considered front-runners to replace Breyer; who else is getting mentioned?

The ABA journal suggests these candidates are the forerunners Two judges are considered front-runners to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, but they aren’t the only contenders. President Joe Biden has pledged to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden stands by his promise. …

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Trademark Office Continues Crack Down on Fraudulent Filers, Sanctions Issued

Author: Thomas Brooke / Holland & Knight Highlights For many years, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has seen an increase in applications to register trademarks, and in turn, an increase in fraudulent applications. As a result, the Trademark Office has tightened up a number of its processes. On Jan. 25, 2022, the Trademark Office issued …

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Oil Tycoon Tries To Hide Money From Ex Wife In Bitter Divorce, End Up In Jail For Five Years For Tax Evasion

Todd Kozel made his riches in the oil fields of Kurdistan and now will have to pay the price. The once-jet-setting co-founder and chief executive of Gulf Keystone Petroleum is headed to prison for five years for tax evasion after years of hiding money in overseas trusts to avoid having to give it to his …

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