A CBD brand has lost its bid to kill a suit claiming it was part of a conspiracy to steal a formula for a hemp-based topical cream, with a Florida federal judge ruling the cream maker’s claims of trade secret theft are strong enough to go forward…
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Cannabis companies Harvest Health & Recreation Inc. and Verano Holdings LLC announced on Thursday that the pair have abandoned plans for an $850 million merger announced last year, citing concerns about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic…
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A group of would-be marijuana cultivators in California took about $1.2 million in seed money to get a grow operation up and running and ran off with the cash, according to a suit brought in Golden State court by a Hawaii-based investment company…
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A former tribal chairman has pled guilty to embezzlement charges in South Dakota federal court as part of a deal aimed at resolving allegations he aided a corruption ring that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tribe’s coffers…
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Lori Loughlin and other parents caught up in the “Varsity Blues” college admission scandal urged a Massachusetts federal court on Wednesday to throw out the “sham” case against them, saying prosecutors had hidden information that could prove their innocence…
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Deloitte & Touche LLP will have to face a lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court over the role of its accounting in the collapse of Adelphia Communications Corp. after a panel of Keystone State appellate judges said a lower court had been wrong to let Deloitte out of the case…
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A California state judge agreed Wednesday to accept a public reprimand after being accused of making inappropriate remarks, including telling an African American defendant to stop “shucking and jiving” and boasting about having “the biggest balls in the courthouse”…
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