Adam Trenk, Rose Law Group partner and equine law director, on Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit’s failed drug test. Baffert’s high horse?

By Joe Drape | The New York Times The 2021 Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, failed a drug test after the race, putting a new stain on a sport troubled by doping problems and placing thoroughbred horse racing’s most recognizable personality, the Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, under uncomfortable scrutiny. If he is disqualified, Medina Spirit will be stripped …

Jonathan Udell, attorney at Rose Law Group, presents cannabis CLE for Coconino County Bar

Staying Out of the Weeds – A Cannabis Law Overview: A Continuing Legal Education presentation delivered Tuesday by firm cannabis attorney and AZ NORML Communications Director Jonathan Udell for the Coconino County Bar Association. A wide array of topics: Ranging from the history of cannabis use/prohibition, the movement to legalize cannabis, and the campaign for Prop. 207, to opportunities for entering the cannabis industry, the financial issues dispensaries …

Arizona Department of Health Services Released Draft of Social Equity Rules

By Jonathan Udell, Rose Law Group cannabis attorney | Rose Law Group Reporter Yesterday at approximately 4:30pm, the Arizona Department of Health Services (“ADHS”) released its first draft of rules that would govern the social equity program established by Proposition 207, the Smart and Safe Arizona Act. See Ariz. Dep’t of Health Svcs., May 2021 Draft of Social Equity Rules (May 6, 2021), available …

Salt River Project plans big increase in solar power over next 4 years; Rose Law Group Energy Department Director Court Rich discusses

The 45-megawatt Sandstone Solar Facility in Florence serves SRP and came online in 2015./Provided by SRP. By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic Salt River Project, Arizona’s second-largest electric company, plans to double the amount of solar energy it gets from large power plants over the next four years. The company, which already had plans for lots more solar, said large …

Dan Gauthier, attorney at Rose Law Group, unpacks ruling vacating CDC eviction moratorium

By Kyle Swensen | Washington Post In a ruling that could have a tremendous impact on millions of Americans, a federal judge in Washington D.C. on Wednesday ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its legal authority when it issued a nationwide eviction moratorium.U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich’s 20-page order says that the protection, first put in place …

Pinal city managers talk water, affordable housing at Pinal Partnership; Rose Law Group Founder and President Jordan Rose moderates

By Mark Cowling | Pinal Central FLORENCE — Even as area communities see record numbers of new homes going up, cities large and small are hurting for affordable housing, city managers said at an online Pinal Partnership breakfast meeting Friday. Casa Grande needs more workforce housing, more multifamily housing and apartments, Deputy City Manager Steven Weaver said. Amid lots of …