Two recent unanimous decisions from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court confirm the supremacy of the state’s marijuana laws over local zoning restrictions. The decisions also indicate a tendency of the Supreme Judicial Court to look to the state policy of legalizing the sale of marijuana when faced with restrictive local ordinances. Both cases involve the...
PS&H counsel, Suzanne Elovecky, will serve as faculty for the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) webcast, Getting the Benefit of the Bargain in Breach of Contract Claims: Strategies for successful litigation in breach of contract cases. Joining Suzanne as faculty, is Joe Cacace, a senior litigation associate at Todd & Weld LLP in Boston. Up to 1...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli On September 9th, the President announced a COVID-19 Action Plan (the “Plan”) and released two orders that contain surprisingly broad measures. The Plan will impact many businesses and organizations across the nation. Of particular note is: 1. Large Private Employer Testing Mandate. According to the announcement (no...
By Eugene G. Bernardo II and David M. DiSegna On August 31, 2021, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2021-39, which allows issuers of tax-exempt private activity bonds to continue to hold TEFRA hearings via teleconference through March 31, 2022. Pursuant to § 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code, tax-exempt qualified private activity bonds are subject...
Green Thumb Industries (“Green Thumb”) has announced that it has closed a deal to acquire one of only three existing medical cannabis dispensaries in Rhode Island, further expanding the Chicago-based company’s substantial footprint in the legal marijuana industry nationwide. Green Thumb is acquiring CanWell Processing and Mobley Pain Management and Wellness Center, each of which...
Partridge Snow & Hahn is proud to announce that 12 of the firm’s attorneys have been included in the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers in America, including one named “Lawyer of the Year”. Best Lawyers in America is one of the most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession. This recognition includes a wide range of the firm’s...
PS&H is proud to announce that Managing Partner, Howard Merten, was elected as President-Elect of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC) for 2021-2022 at the organization’s Annual Meeting at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. The FDCC is an international professional association of rigorously peer-reviewed defense and corporate counsel. Membership is limited to...
The federal Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) has refused to consider an application by Charlotte’s Web Holdings, Inc. (“Charlotte’s Web”) for a CBD product to be sold as a dietary ingredient. Instead of clarifying the uncertain legal environment around of the sale of CBD products intended for human and animal ingestion, the FDA’s inaction maintains...
By Alicia J. Samolis PS&H partner Alicia Samolis was one of the employer-side attorneys who recently weighed in on the new Rhode Island pay equity law to Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly. Alicia first advised that “[a]s a conceptual matter, don’t think of this as a discrimination law. Forget about ‘protected class’ status. Every single employee is...
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of a case out of Colorado dealing with a medical marijuana dispensary’s challenge to a tax code provision. After denying review, Justice Thomas—one of the Court’s most conservative members and one not known for offering unsolicited political or legal opinions—issued a statement indicating that, with an increasing...
