Mitigating and Addressing Litigation Risks for Cannabis Businesses
Florida’s Equine Landscape
Cannabis M&A: Pain Points and Opportunities
Haight Partner Greg Rolen Testifies About SB 907 Before the California State Assembly
Intellectual property considerations for launching new cannabis products
Unpacking the current cannabis regulatory landscape and how it impacts your business
In That Case: Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
Mitigating Political-Law Risk
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 40 - Debunking Courtroom Pseudoscience: A Conversation With the Innocence Project's Chris Fabricant
State AG Pulse | The State AG: Both Advocate & Influencer
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 21: Economic, Industry, and Workforce Development in the City of Greenville with Mayor Knox White
State AG Pulse | Changing of the Guard in the PNW
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Gavels & Gowns - What’s Next in VA K-12 Education? An Interview with Scott Brabrand, Executive Director of VASS
Unveiling Gender-Affirming Care: Why It Matters and What’s at Stake – Diagnosing Health Care
State AG Pulse | Everybody Comes From Somewhere
AI Law in the Commonwealth of Virginia - Recent Developments
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Farmers First According to Humboldt Trim Company
State AG Pulse | Content moderation vs. free expression
State AG Pulse | Swinging Through the Rust Belt, the Sun Belt and the South
Project Catalyst: An Economic Development Podcast | Ep. 3: Secretary Harry Ligthsey, SC Department of Commerce
On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court of Virginia held that a lawsuit alleging that the state government had procured a contractor's settlement of a contract dispute using economic duress and bad faith could proceed, rejecting...more
Virginia’s Constitution automatically disqualifies all persons convicted of any felony from voting unless their civil rights are restored by the Governor. See Va. Const. art. II, § 1. In a recent case, two plaintiffs...more
In June, four individuals and an advocacy organization for previously incarcerated individuals brought suit in the Eastern District of Virginia against several state and local officials alleging that Virginia was denying...more
There has been a recent decision on an interesting case involving a challenge to the ability of the federal government to provide benefits or rights to Tribes and other Native organizations....more
Ultra Vires and Immunity - On June 3, 2022, the Texas Supreme Court issued two important opinions on the topic of waiver of governmental immunity based on the doctrine of ultra vires. In the first–Van Boven–the Court...more
The Texas Whistleblower Act The Texas Whistleblower Act (Act) was adopted “amidst a growing sense throughout the country that ‘mismanagement in the public sector’” was a growing public concern, and that “employees who...more
Governmental Immunity - Although often used interchangeably, the terms sovereign immunity and governmental immunity involve two distinct concepts. Sovereign immunity protects the State and divisions of state government...more
Barnett v. State of Florida and Its Effect on Governmental Entities who Are Sued for Claims Involving a Criminal Episode with Multiple Victims. ...more
The Supreme Court has stricken a federal statute that abrogated a State’s immunity from copyright infringement lawsuits. The Copyright Remedy Clarification Act of 1990 (CRCA) provided that States “shall not be immune, under...more
For over 20 years, the State of California has used tribal gaming compacts to accomplish what federal law and tribal sovereignty would otherwise forbid: forcing tribes to follow state labor law in their casinos. Recently...more
Florida Supreme Court rewrites the rules, lifting restrictions on the immediate appeal of orders denying absolute, qualified, or sovereign immunity. For those who have kept abreast of the latest opinions issued by the...more
Impact of Amendments to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.130 and Florida Highway Patrol v. Jackson on Governmental Entities and Employees If you are a State Agency, City, County, Sheriff’s Office, School Board, Police...more
On January 16, 2020, the New Mexico Supreme Court issued its decision in Mendoza v. Isleta Resort and Casino, holding that a tribe does not waive its sovereign immunity to workers’ compensation claims merely by committing in...more
On January 23, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court changed the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure to create a new class of interlocutory appeals and expand the right to bring other appeals from nonfinal orders....more
HB 311 passed the Georgia Senate on March 25, 2019, and now goes to the governor, who is expected to sign it into law. The bill creates a limited waiver of sovereign immunity by permitting plaintiffs to sue the state,...more
The New Mexico Court of Appeals held in Wolinsky v. New Mexico Corrections Department that the state Fair Pay for Women Act’s definition of “employer” extends to the State of New Mexico and its agencies. ...more
Sovereign immunity is the legal doctrine, dating back to the days of the British monarchy, that a sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from suit: in essence, “the king can do no wrong.” ...more
A recent Georgia appellate court decision serves as a stark reminder to contractors on government projects that sovereign immunity, though frequently disclaimed in the contract, may limit a contractor’s ability to recover. In...more
The Third Circuit recently denied a petition for rehearing en banc a panel’s earlier decision in the In re Flonase Antitrust Litigation. In that case, the panel decision addressed the degree to which class settlements can...more
Although all signs this morning pointed to a quiet day under the Gold Dome, the halls quickly became abuzz with news of a compromise on HB 159, the adoption bill authored by Rep. Bert Reeves (R-Marietta). The masses got their...more
In Covidien LP v. University of Florida Research Foundation Incorporated, IPR2016-01274, -01275, -01276 (January 2017), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board held that Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity applies to inter partes...more
Enforcing an arbitration award or a judgment against a sovereign state is not always easy. The case of Avionics Technologies Ltd v The Federal Republic of Nigeria and another addressed the novel issue of whether it is...more