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Personal Jurisdiction: New Limitations HOW MARIJUANA USE CAN STILL BE ILLEGAL IN PROCEED WITH CAUTION – WHY STATE EQUALIZED MICHIGAN POST PROPOSAL 1 PASSAGE andVA theLUE M Consent-by-RegistrationAY NOT BE YOUR CLIENT’S FRIEND Workaround 30th Annual Bench-Bar Conference On November 6, 2018, recreational buying and selling recreational marijuana, a person will still be prohib- PersonalProbat ejurisdiction can be a co ism ap biglica deal.ted p rWithoutocess fo it,r t hae court cannot of an inapproConsentpriately topr oPersonalvided ba Jurisdictionsis. Equally iViampo Businessrtant, a r eRegistrationport of this marijuana use was approved by voters ited from exporting it to other places even if it’s legal in that place. enterper sao moneynal rep rjudgmentesentativ eor, w injunctionho likely oagainstnly ha na -defendant. In caliber may help substantiate your claim that the values within the report in Michigan. The ballot initiative was dles this type of Dsituationo once onr twic’e int a letRated ★★★★a by Orbitz/Travrare weeelocityll-foaunInd ethedl a waken d ace ofcu rtheate snew. limitationsta ont personale jurisdiction, e annual conference was held on May 3rd at Travis Pointe Country Club. recent years, the United States Supreme Court has narrowed called Proposal 1, but the law is called 5. Lastly, driving while high is still illegal in Michigan. Currently lifYOURetime. As an attorn eMEETINGy, the process makes plaintiffs have increasingly argued that regardless of the extent the circumstances under which personal jurisdiction may be the Michigan Regulation and Taxation there is zero tolerance for operating with the presence of recreational sense to you, but yourNEVER client likely oHADnly has a IT Other tips aab defendantout appra doesWEBER’Sisals :business within a forum, a defendant consents of Marihuana Act (MRTMA). The marijuana in Michigan if you are under 21. The minimum standard in exercised,cursory particularlyunderstandi nagainstg of th out-of-statee process. A corporate proper defendants. assessment of the value of the decedent’s real THIS GOODto general jurisdiction the moment it registers under the forum’s MRTMA went into effect on December Michigan for Operating While Intoxicated under Marijuana for those See generally Michael H. Hoffheimer, The Stealth Revolution in It is important to remember that sometimes the person paying for the ap- property is particaularlys diffiscult feor the tlayp er-delay paraisal is notbusiness the app rregistrationaiser’s clien statute,t. For ewhichxamp linvariablye, in a mo requiresrtgage le thendi ng 6, 2018. Currently people can use mari- over 21 is 1 nanogram/milliliter. This is a very low testable level. Personal Jurisdiction, 70 Fla. L. Rev. 499 (2018). Yet these changes son or the attorney who is unfamiliar with real scenario, theappointment borrower is ofpa yanin agentg for tforhe serviceapprais aofl. processThe ap pwithinraiser, thehow forum.- juana recreationally in Michigan if they Other states like Colorado and Washington set their level at 5 ng/ml. It are not fully reflected in Michigan decisions addressing personal estate transactions. ever, is deveThislopin gtheory their isan anotly siwithouts and r eprecedent—theporting for the irSupreme client: tCourthe le nder. can obtain the substance legally. This is possible that in the near future our legislature will address drugged jurisdiction, leading to a potential trap for a practitioner looking If you have a client purchasing property and they would like to engage accepted it in Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co. of Philadelphia v. means that a person can still break the Alexander W. Hermanowski driving for recreational marijuana users. This area of criminal law will onlyW hate nMichigan determin caseing dlaw.ate Thisof de aarticleth va luprovideses for th ae brief overview the services of an appraiser, it is completely within their right to do so, decedent's assets, the temptation may be to use Rachel Massey Gold Issue Mining & Milling Co., 243 U.S. 93 (1917). And in some law by using or possessing recreational also develop more through case law. of the recent constitutionalse constraintstt imposedle onm personale nPault. T. Stewartbut it is separate from the mortgage process. assessment data in order to arrive at the opinion post-Daimler instances, the consent-by-registration theory has marijuana. Below are some examples jurisdiction, and then considers the potential for a Michigan The Judiciary Committee of the Washtenaw County Bar of how people can still run into issues As one can see, the MRTMA hasn’t completely eliminated illegal ac- of value as of the date of death, but is this With appraisworked.als, the iSee,nten e.g.,ded Senjuuse ca Pharm.n be fo rCo., mo Ltd.rtga gv.e Metrics,financin Inc.g, f,o 96r e F.s- courtwor toki nexerciseg in yo upersonalr client’ sjurisdiction best intere sundert? Is t hae consent-by- as- tablishing a value in an equitable dissolution issue, or it can be for buying Association wishes to express its deep gratitude for the support under the new law. tivity relating to recreational marijuana use and possession. The above sessment data a good indicator of value? Does having a value that is sub- Supp. 3d 428, 436-40 (D.N.J. 2015); see also Genuine Parts Co. v. examples are not exhaustive and since this is a new area of law in registration theory, where jurisdiction would otherwise be lacking. a house without a loan. There are myriad reasons someone may wish to stantially higher or lower than actuSal PvaElueC hIuArt LtheI ZcliIeNnt Gan dI pNot eSntEialLlyLINhCepecaGve Ra, n137E inAd A.3deLpe nE 123,dSenTt 149,oApiTn n.30iEon Ao (Del.f SthSe 2016)pOroCpeI r(Vaughn,Aty’Ts vEalDu eJ., . dissenting) One const a(surveyingnt is of the following conference sponsors: Michigan, there will be changes as our state learns to navigate the 1. Even though recreational marijuana use is permitted, it’s not permit- Essentialsubject Backgroundyou to misrepresentation inW theI eTndH? ESTATE SALES, PROtcases).haBt tAhe T aEpp,r aAisaNl rDep oDrtI sVhoOuldR bCe Eun.d e rCstAanLdaLbl e to the client and in- ted for everyone. The MRTMA allows adults 21 years or older to recreational marijuana arena. tended users. Blanchard & Walker, PLLC Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C. legally possess two and a half ounces of marijuana outside the home, A Icourt’sn orde exerciser to dete ofrm personaline whet hjurisdictioner or noFt Oth musteRse As ocomport uCrceOs Nar ewithF reIlDi bothabEleN, theI Tpu IlAledL ASYetSE personalSSM EjurisdictionNT. law has evolved significantly since Pennsylvania and up to ten ounces at their home. If a person has recreational mari- jurisdictionaltwenty rand statutesom sale ins i nthe th estate are awhere, and ctheom courtpared sits, the iandr sa lthees p Fourteenthrices to the as- AFirepp,r andaisa lnumerous reports sh decisionsould be c afterlear a Daimlernd help havelead trejectedhe clien consent-by-t to a logical con- Bredell and Bredell Lana Panagoulia Law, PLLC ab sessment data. The TCV is the True Cash Value (See chart below.) clusion. Even if the client does not agree with the results in the end, they juana in excess of those amounts, then they are violating the law. The Amendment’s Due Process Clause. GoodyearALE XDunlop MI TiresLSH OperationsTEYN, ,S.A. CRS , GRI, Aregistration,BR including decisions from the highest state appellate courts age restriction also means that those under age 21 can still have issues, MICHIGAN’S PREMIER MEETING FACILITY should always be able to understand how the appraiser got to their con- ChrisTtehnese Jn uLdawiciary Committee of tLhaew Wa Offische toefn Jainwan C Mo. uHnatmyo oBdar v. 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