Month: August 2017

CM Publisher Updates Fuel Gas Story, Notes Texas Preempts Local Rules

Writing in The Huffington Post, Courts Monitor Publisher Sara Warner updates her coverage of a controversial fuel-gas tubing that brings natural gas into millions of American homes.  The extend of fire danger from lightening strikes is at issue,… Read More

Will Pot + RICO Challenge State’s Federalist Trend?

Writing in The Washington Post, legal commentator Jonathan H. Adler outlines both the context and challenges facing “legal” marijuana now that a law targeting gangsters is being used for civil resistance to state pot reforms. We’ve reported before… Read More

Texas Journalist Explains Medicaid Flaw In Asbestos Lawsuits, Calls For Change

A Dallas-based journalist who pioneered coverage of asbestos lawsuit issues is calling for changes while explaining a “Catch 22” that could be shortchanging states’ Medicaid coffers. Christine Biederman, writing as a contributor to The Hill newspaper in Washington… Read More

Legal Pot Might Be Sued Out of Business

A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is raising eyebrows in the legal marijuana industry and the Denver weekly newspaper Westword warns that the litigation “… is based on federal racketeering laws, that… Read More