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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Agnes Repplier (American essayist) Unfortunately, Reese Witherspoon was too late with her sage advice on MTV’s 2011 Movie Awards show. “If you [take] naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hide your face, people! Hide your face!” Maybe if she had just shared [...]
In November 2010, Arizona voters narrowly passed ballot proposition 203, known as the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (commonly known as “Prop 203,” or simply the “Act”). Prop 203 legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes in the state of Arizona, and requires patients to obtain a physician’s “recommendation” in order to be issued a [...]
As we in the frozen Midwest readily welcome spring’s arrival, (and those of us in Arizona brace ourselves to crank the AC up another notch), The Foster Group is preparing for the opening of the H-1B Visa season beginning April 1. If you are an employer anticipating hiring nonimmigrant foreign workers under the H-1B Visa [...]
The Executive Branch and Justice Department’s decision to no longer defend the constitutionality of the federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriages could have a sweeping impact beginning with the benefits that employers offer to their employees as well as upon trusts and estates. The federal government’s actions could prompt more progressive states and local [...]
Redistricting Panel Led By David Lujan Will Discuss Details of Redistricting
Yesterday morning, the Arizona Dept. of Health Services (DHS) released its revised rules for medical marijuana in Arizona. After analyzing more than 1,500 public comments on the first (released in mid-December), DHS’s most recent draft shows an even-handed approach to regulating this complex emerging industry. Some of the most significant changes in this draft include: [...]
