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Archives: Statements of Opinion. Subscribe to Statements of Opinion. 5 Wishes for Securities Litigation Defense: Effective Use of the Supreme Court’s Omnicare Decision. June 29, 2016. Posted in Defense Counsel. In this installment of the D&O Discourse series 5 Wishes for Securities Litigation Defense. 8221; we discuss the third of five changes that would significantly improve securities litigation defense: to make the Supreme Court’s. Decision a primary tool in the defense of securities class actions.
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Court Declines to Prevent Merger of Washington Medical and Recreational | The Pipeline: Cannabis Law Advisor
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Raquo; Court Declines to Prevent Merger of Washington Medical and Recreational. Court Declines to Prevent Merger of Washington Medical and Recreational. July 1, 2016. Over the last year, the Washington state marijuana industry has anticipated the transition from an unregulated medical marijuana market to an integrated, medical-recreational market on July 1, 2016, under the Cannabis Patient Protection Act. Find more information on the history of the two merged industries, the recent suit and some takeaways.
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Oregon Cannabis Producers Need to 'Grow Up' and Respect Boundaries | The Pipeline: Cannabis Law Advisor
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Raquo; Oregon Cannabis Producers Need to ‘Grow Up’ and Respect Boundaries. Oregon Cannabis Producers Need to ‘Grow Up’ and Respect Boundaries. November 29, 2016. The regulated cannabis industry is growing exponentially. Regulators, with the help of industry leaders and advisors, are demanding that the industry grow up and embrace the realities of functioning in a highly-regulated environment. Adolescent behavior will not be tolerated. Calculated in square feet and measured using the outside boundaries.
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If More States Vote 'Green' This November, Some Believe It Could Be 'The Beginning of the End of the War On Marijuana' | The Pipeline: Cannabis Law Advisor
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Raquo; If More States Vote ‘Green’ This November, Some Believe It Could Be ‘The Beginning of the End of the War On Marijuana’. If More States Vote ‘Green’ This November, Some Believe It Could Be ‘The Beginning of the End of the War On Marijuana’. October 25, 2016. Next month, voters in five more states will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana. As reported by. The New York Times. In an insightful article. The New York Times. Reports The Arcview Group. Which touts itself as the legal cannabis...
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Recreational Cannabis — Section 280E and Tax Efficient Structuring | The Pipeline: Cannabis Law Advisor
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Raquo; Recreational Cannabis Section 280E and Tax Efficient Structuring. Recreational Cannabis Section 280E and Tax Efficient Structuring. June 15, 2016. I The Conflict: The Long Arm of Federal Law. II IRC Section 280E: Limiting U.S. Federal Income Tax Deductions. Section 280E was enacted in 1982 to overturn the result in the Tax Court case. Jeffrey Edmondson v. Commissioner. Section 61 defines gross income as all income from whatever source derived. One category of income listed in section 61 is gro...
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Subscribe to Supreme Court. Eleventh Circuit Ignores Omnicare in Rejecting Claim Based on Failure to Disclose True Motivations for Stock Repurchase, in Henningsen v. ADT Corp. (September 7, 2016). By Claire Loebs Davis. September 12, 2016. Posted in 11th Circuit. The 11th Circuit ignored the potential application of the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in. Henningsen v. ADT Corp. The district court dismissed most of the claims for failure to sufficiently plead falsity and scienter, and rejected the motivati...
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Securities Class Action | D&O Developments
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Subscribe to Securities Class Action. Ninth Circuit Says Ethics Policies Are “Inherently Aspirational,” and Violations Don’t Support Securities Fraud Claims, in. Retail Wholesale v. Hewlett-Packard. January 19, 2017). By Heidi Brooks Bradley. February 16, 2017. Posted in Falsity Analysis. Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union Local 338 Retirement Fund v. Hewlett-Packard Co. and Mark A. Hurd. HP touted its strict code of conduct prior to Hurd’s resignation for violating the code. In this issue of fi...
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Scienter Analysis | D&O Developments
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Subscribe to Scienter Analysis. Timing Is Everything: Contemporaneous Knowledge of Falsity Is Key to First Circuit’s Scienter Rulings, in. In re Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Securities Litigation. November 28, 2016). January 9, 2017. Posted in 1st Circuit. The First Circuit affirmed the dismissal of nearly all securities class action claims against Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Ariad) and four corporate officers, in. In re Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Securities Litig. Greebel v. FTP Software, Inc. Reversi...
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Cashed Cannabis: Required Reports for Amounts Exceeding $10,000 | The Pipeline: Cannabis Law Advisor
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Raquo; Cashed Cannabis: Required Reports for Amounts Exceeding $10,000. Cashed Cannabis: Required Reports for Amounts Exceeding $10,000. October 3, 2016. Is your cannabis business ready for an IRS exam? IRS examinations are increasingly focused on IRS Form 8300. Developing policies and procedures to capture reportable transactions can be difficult. Recipients of currency must also be careful about so-called structured transactions or multiple payments exceeding $10,000 related to a single transaction...