Vincent Sliwoski in Oregon Live | The Oregonian
Vince Sliwoski, a lawyer who advises Oregon marijuana businesses, said “it’s full speed ahead” for his clients.
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Dan Harris in Reuters
“Laws in China on something like forced technology are paper; the reality may or may not match that paper,” said Dan Harris, Seattle-based managing partner of law firm Harris Sliwoski, which helps firms navigate legal issues overseas including in China.
“I generally think that on something like this, past history is the best predictor of future performance, and few dispute that China has for the last 10 years been saying it would open up and it all but stopped about five years ago.”
Vincent Sliwoski in Portland Business Journal
Writing on Cannalawblog.com on Monday, Portland cannabis attorney Vincent Sliwoski said Judge Clarke’s recommendation is “almost certain” to go through.
Adams Lee in CNBC
“China this past month initiated an antidumping investigation on sorghum grains from the US. China imported over a billion USD of sorghum in 2016,” Adams Lee, an international trade lawyer at Harris Bricken, said in an email. “If Trump imposes steel/ aluminum duties on China, I think China likely will initiate a new antidumping investigation on U.S. soybeans, which had about $12 – 13 billion exported to China.”
Vincent Sliwoski in Marijuana Moment
“Most people—and even many lawyers—are surprised to learn that juries are not required to follow the law,” When a jury’s conscience takes over and tells it that someone does not deserve criminal punishment for his or her actions, regardless of the law, the jury can choose to acquit.”
Sliwoski offered an interesting, hypothetical scenario. What if a jury in federal court was tasked with deciding the fate of an individual charged for violating the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)?
“The possibility of jury nullification in a CSA case against a cannabis business is both fascinating and realistic.”
“It is realistic not just because of the favorable polling for cannabis nationwide, but also because these juries would be empaneled in jurisdictions that voted to legalize pot in the first place,” he wrote. “Imagine a hapless U.S. attorney being ordered to charge a popular cannabis farm in Humbolt County, California, which is America’s largest cannabis labor market.”
Adams Lee in Inc.
New restrictions in the trade relationship with China come as dozens of U.S. firms, from semiconductor design houses to mom-and-pop retailers, already fear the ripple effects of recently introduced, tit-for-tat tariffs. Indeed, businesses that pay to import component parts or other products from China are likely to see added costs that could hurt the bottom line. Meanwhile, anti-American sentiment in Beijing could take the shine off American brands such as Apple, and additional red tape from China’s government could drive out those with a physical presence abroad, analysts suggest. “Tech companies probably have the most to worry about [in a trade war],” noted Adams Lee, an attorney with the international law firm Harris Sliwoski, in a phone call with Inc. earlier this month.