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I live in Arizona and I have a medical marijuana card, is it possible to bring medicine from out of state? In recent years, two of Arizona's neighbors (Colorado and California) have changed their laws to allow adults to purchase and consume recreational marijuana legally. Arizona voters passed the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (“AMMA”) to allow qualifying patie...

Under the new tax law, estate tax has not been repealed. However, there is relief for higher net worth individuals, business owners and people with large estates that have little or no liquidity who previously might have sold their assets to pay estate taxes. Effective January 1, 2018, the new estate tax laws increased the lifetime exclusion from estate tax, gi...

A fact is defined as a thing that is indisputably the case or a piece of information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article. This is why it is important to know the facts or check facts you hear before relying on them or passing them; don’t simply take them as true.  We live in a world where most people blindly believe what they read on...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (03/21/2018) – Nate Meyer, a partner at the Phoenix law firm of Jaburg Wilk, was recently named a top author by JD Supra in the 2018 Readers Choice Awards. Nate was selected as a thought leader in insurance law. More than 50,000 authors contributed to JD Supra last year and Nate was one of 240 authors selected for this national recogn...

In Arizona, when parents are no longer married or not living together in paternity matters, they may have an agreement for parenting their children (legal decision making) and parenting time for when each parent will be with their children. The agreement may be a written agreement that they mutually agreed upon or they could have had the family law courts enter a...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (2/23/2018) –  Carissa Seidl was appointed to the Executive Board for the Maricopa County Bar Association Family Law Section for a two-year term. The board is responsible for organizing and facilitating educational as well as social events for family law professionals.  Additionally, it is an important forum for the exchange of ideas an...

Imagine this scenario: Your company is in Arizona and one of your sales representatives goes to work for a competitor. He knows all about your pricing and bidding practices, so he helps your competitor undercut your prices. He then calls all of your customers and offers discounted pricing while telling them about the many flaws in your organization. After successfu...

The Award In McClure v. CC Services Inc. & Country Life Insurance Company dba Country Life Financial, an Arizona insurance bad faith case arising from a disability claim, a jury awarded $1.29 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The Takeaway Although Arizona has a reputation for conservative juries—particularly Ph...

On June 19, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the disparagement clause of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq.) in Matal v. Tam (137 S. Ct. 1744), holding that it violates the First Amendment’s free speech clause. Before the Matal v. Tam decision, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) relied on the disparageme...

When the heat is on, how do you perform? Can you remain calm? Can you focus on the task at hand? Or do you crack under pressure? Or maybe you take out your stress on those around you? If so, you need to find ideas and tools to remain calm and focus, like Shaun White did last night.  On February 13th, I watched him win his third Olympic gold medal in the snowboard...