Will Colorado marijuana ruling affect Nevada?
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Sounded callous, but was it legal?
Short answer: Yes, in Colorado. Maybe in Nevada.
“Mr. Coats could not have had a more sympathetic set of facts,” said Steve Suflas, an attorney with the national law firm of Ballard Spahr, who is based in Colorado. “This was a guy with a very, very sad state of affairs and an employer with a strict anti-drug policy.”
On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled it was OK for the satellite company to fire the telephone customer service representative, though what he was doing on his own time was perfectly legal under Colorado law. However, it is a violation of federal law.
Coats argued what he...
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