Drugs
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Charles "Cully" Stimson, Drugs, Marijuana, Politics
America's Youth: The Marijuana Martyrs
As Colorado "celebrates" its third year of marijuana legalization, marijuana enthusiasts gloat of the state’s sweeping success -- but it comes with significant costs, as columnist Kayleigh McEnany points out. -
White-Collar Crime
The DEA's Delusion Of Post 9/11 Grandeur
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Drugs
Homeless Lawyer Searches For Panda
Let he who has not broken into a house looking for a panda, cast the first stone.
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Benchslaps, Canada
The View From Up North: Court Of Appeal Benchslaps Trial Judge
It seems that the trial judge suffered through a herniated brain cramp while presiding over this trial. -
Christopher Christie, Drugs
Chris Christie's Plea For America To Change How It Deals With Drug Addiction Includes Story About Biglaw Partner Who OD'd
Addiction can happen to anyone. No one is immune to this disease. -
Crime, Drugs
Criminally Yours: Can White Heroin Addiction Change The Paradigm?
Until law enforcement, prosecutors, and legislators work out their own conflicted feelings about helping versus punishing drug users, maybe it's time to move this out of police hands entirely. -
Legal Ethics, Marijuana
Lawyer Gets Paid In Weed, Keeps His Law License
You may be able to adhere to Snoop Dogg’s edict and smoke weed every day (if you don’t get caught), but you should never get involved in a drug trade. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.23.15
* Any day Cadwalader can avoid damages in a huge, multimillion-dollar malpractice case is a great day. Yesterday, the New York Court of Appeals dismissed a never-ending suit filed against the firm by a former client over a failed commercial mortgage-backed securitization. Phew! [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* Say hello to Northwestern Pritzker Law: In case you missed it, Northwestern Law recently received a $100 million donation, the largest single gift ever made to a law school. For that much money, you’re damn right the school has a new name. [Chicago Tribune]
* This must’ve been a huge blow to his ego… U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had to dismiss insider trading charges against seven defendants thanks to a Second Circuit decision that made it harder to prosecute certain financial crimes. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Charleston Law fired back against professors who sued the school by saying in its answer it wouldn’t be in such dire straits if they hadn’t “sabotaged the transfer of the school to InfiLaw.” Take that back, they did a good deed. [Charleston Regional Business Journal]
* “Sorry, not sorry, narcs,” says Judge Breyer. Earlier this week, a California judge informed the DEA that it needed to stop harshing medical marijuana patients’ mellows by shutting down medical pot dispensaries that were operating within state laws. [TIME]
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Crime, Drugs
From Criminal To Criminal Defense Lawyer: A Former Drug Dealer Makes Good
Meet Allan Haber, a former heroin dealer and addict who is now a successful criminal defense attorney. -
California, Marijuana
An Overview Of California's New (And Improved) Medical Marijuana Laws
California is going to have one of the most comprehensive and complicated medical marijuana licensing regimes in the country, as marijuana law columnist Hilary Bricken explains. -
Crime, Prisons, Sentencing Law
Criminally Yours: The Prisoners Are Coming
Let's hope the follow-through on the sentence reductions will be as good as the build-up to it. -
Marijuana
This Is Your Brain On Drug War Rhetoric
Today's anti-cannabis ad campaigns feel like the last vestige of a rapidly shrinking subset of society that wants to keep cannabis criminalized. -
White-Collar Crime
The Senate Criminal Justice Reform Bill Is Here! (And It’s Disappointing)
Can Congress even capable of passing criminal justice reform? Let alone meaningful criminal justice reform?
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Drugs, Murder
Attorney Accused Of Trying To Arrange Murder-For-Hire Scheme During Heroin Drug Deal
Prior to his arrest, he'd been practicing law out of an office located inside of a car dealership. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.21.15
* Somewhere in Florida, Casey Anthony can rest a little easier knowing that Zenaida Gonzalez, the woman she falsely implicated in the kidnapping and death of her already deceased child, just had her defamation suit thrown out. [WKMG]
* Better late than never? The Judicial Conference finally decided impeachment is warranted for Judge Mark E. Fuller, who recently resigned from his position on the Middle District of Alabama’s bench in the wake of his “reprehensible” domestic violence scandal last summer. [WSJ Law Blog]
* In case you were wondering which Biglaw firms were reaping financial rewards in the race to represent clients in space, Squire Patton Boggs and K&L Gates have both performed at least six figures of work from their mission control centers. [Am Law Daily]
* Thomas Rubino, a paralegal at Manhattan firm Paris & Chaikin, allegedly forged the names of 76 judges on fake orders to make his life easier at work. Now that he’s facing 234 counts of forgery, something tells us his life is going to be more difficult. [New York Post]
* Lindsay Lohan’s defamation case against Fox News over comments made on The Sean Hannity Show that she did coke with her mother was dismissed because as Justice Wright noted, “truth is a defense.” He clearly didn’t think LiLo’s claims were fetch. [MSN News]
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Marijuana, Murder
Law Grad Allegedly Murdered Fellow Classmate In Drug Deal Gone Bad
Both law school graduates were apparently "in the game" of selling marijuana. -
Attorney Misconduct, Crime
Selling Drugs Not A Great Way For Lawyers To Supplement Their Income
"Your go-to girl for criminal and DUI defense" has found herself in a bit of a legal pickle. -
Biglaw, Drugs
An Update On An Addicted Associate
Whatever happened to the Biglaw associate who reached out to Above the Law and its readers for advice on dealing with a very serious addiction problem? -
Technology
Cops Caught Misbehaving During Pot Dispensary Raid Sue Police Dept. To Prevent Recording From Being Used Against Them
The cops caught sampling pot during a raid have some laughable reasons why that video must be suppressed. -
Drugs
Drone Drops Drugs On Prison Yard: Hilarity, Violence Ensues
This is what drones are really good for though.