On this episode of White Collar Briefly, Perkins Coie’s White Collar & Investigations practice attorneys Markus Funk and Lili Timmermann interview special guest (and colleague) retired Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Bender. A true original, Justice Bender discusses far-ranging topics, including his important civil rights work in the 1960s, his challenging representation as a
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Former Colorado Chief Justice and Colleagues Examine Broader Implications Of Sessions’ Marijuana Move
By Markus Funk, Perkins Coie, Michael A. Sink & Barak Cohen on
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There will be little debate that this has been a bad day for the state-sanctioned (and regulated) marijuana industry. The Obama-era directives that significantly fettered the discretion of U.S. attorneys to bring federal narcotics charges against marijuana growers, distributors and possessors in states that “legalized” marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes are now a thing…