With the UK's 2020 AGM season over, the FRC has published a review of how companies responded to the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown and set out its view of best practice for the 2021 AGM season.

In this week’s edition: Mounting challenges to US and global drug scheduling classifications of cannabis, US cannabis stocks surge after statements by Kamala Harris (D) at VP-nominee debates, Vermont enacts legislation establishing a taxed and regulated recreational cannabis market, New Mexico Ho

Are PTAB judges constitutional? This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari to answer this question. In Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew, the Federal Circuit considered whether the appointment of administrative patent judges violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.

As lockdowns loom across the land with the introduction of a three-tier system of restrictions based on local COVID-19 alert levels, at the highest alert level (tier 3) certain businesses will be forced to close, including pubs and bars (unless they serve substantial meals)....