Recent Developments in Florida Energy and Environmental Legislation
Mitigating and Addressing Litigation Risks for Cannabis Businesses
Florida’s Equine Landscape
Cannabis M&A: Pain Points and Opportunities
Haight Partner Greg Rolen Testifies About SB 907 Before the California State Assembly
Intellectual property considerations for launching new cannabis products
Unpacking the current cannabis regulatory landscape and how it impacts your business
In That Case: Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
Mitigating Political-Law Risk
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 40 - Debunking Courtroom Pseudoscience: A Conversation With the Innocence Project's Chris Fabricant
State AG Pulse | The State AG: Both Advocate & Influencer
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 21: Economic, Industry, and Workforce Development in the City of Greenville with Mayor Knox White
State AG Pulse | Changing of the Guard in the PNW
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Gavels & Gowns - What’s Next in VA K-12 Education? An Interview with Scott Brabrand, Executive Director of VASS
Unveiling Gender-Affirming Care: Why It Matters and What’s at Stake – Diagnosing Health Care
State AG Pulse | Everybody Comes From Somewhere
AI Law in the Commonwealth of Virginia - Recent Developments
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Farmers First According to Humboldt Trim Company
State AG Pulse | Content moderation vs. free expression
State AG Pulse | Swinging Through the Rust Belt, the Sun Belt and the South
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The drumbeat of the challenges facing almost every corner of the office building market should be loud and clear to owners and lenders. For some, the current situation is dire, while for others it will likely worsen in the...more
First-generation solar and wind projects are quickly reaching the end of their useful lives. At the same time, an unprecedented number of new renewable-energy projects will be installed in the coming years. During this...more
In my last blog, I wrote about the shortcomings of compensating displaced property owners based on the ‘objective’ standard of the market value of their property. That standard ignores the owners’ ‘subjective’ losses, such...more
When we take on an eminent domain case, our primary goal is to put our client in the best position possible. In some cases, that means fighting the taking itself, as my dad (and boss) did in the well-known Wayne County v....more
Budgets - The legislature passed record-setting budgets after working into the early hours of Friday morning. The House and the Senate met in a conference committee to reconcile their differences before the final passage...more
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In an effort to preserve agricultural and forest land, Pennsylvania passed The Pennsylvania Farmland and Forest Land Assessment Act of 1974, also known as Clean and Green. Clean and Green provides qualified parcels of land...more
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (the “Commission”) recently announced that it is looking for Pennsylvania landowners with stream frontages to enter into conservation easement agreements in exchange for a one-time...more
On March 24, 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court reviewed the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act and further clarified the steps a surface owners must take to identify and locate mineral holders before serving notice of abandonment. ...more
A California Court of Appeal held that longstanding use of a landowner’s property for access and parking by residents of the adjacent lot had established a prescriptive easement. Husain v. California Pacific Bank, 61...more
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On March 16, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued another important opinion in the ongoing tug of war between surface landowners and severed mineral owners over the ownership of valuable mineral rights in Ohio. In Erickson...more
New stormwater requirements will cost property owners hundreds of millions of dollars - The House Committee on Corrections and Institutions received a primer this week on the history behind the 3-acre general permit,...more
In order to encourage the productive use of agricultural land in Florida, the Florida legislature enacted Section 193.461, Florida Statutes. This statute is frequently referred to as the “Greenbelt Law.” Agricultural...more
In a recent decision, Matter of Labate v DeChance, the Second Department held that a landowner could continue to use his property to store construction equipment, despite a zoning ordinance prohibiting that type of use....more
On December 17, the Supreme Court of Ohio held in Gerrity v. Chervenak that the circumstances of each respective case will control the efforts a surface owner must take before resorting to notice by publication under the...more
The Court of Appeals of Minnesota (“Court”) in a December 7th Opinion addressed a zoning issue associated with an industrial waste landfill. See AIM Development (USA), LLC v. City of Sartell, 2020 WL 7134863...more
In perhaps a sign of the linguistic times, Appeals Court Justice James R. Milkey’s opinion in the case of Comstock v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Gloucester received more media coverage for certain racial history commentary...more
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On April 24, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) adopted a temporary rule modification that grants extensions to certain site remediation timeframes under the Administrative Requirements for the...more
On March 17, 2020, a Washington State Court of Appeals addressed the Washington Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) roles as a landowner and a fire suppression agency in light of the enactment of RCW 76.04.016. See Schulz...more
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In Town of Brookhaven v Golemi, 2019 NY Slip Op 51477(U) [Sup Ct, Suffolk County 2019], the Town of Brookhaven (“Brookhaven”) successfully sought and obtained injunctive relief to remove a structure that violated Brookhaven’s...more
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