by Brian Huddleston | Mar 19, 2018 | Legislation & Case Notes, Real Estate Law
You have just noticed that your neighbor?s front door camera directly faces your door and/or window. With the new motion sensitive video surveillance systems and online cloud storage of all video, you are recorded every time you open the door. Maybe this makes you...
by Brian Huddleston | Mar 19, 2018 | Real Estate Law
If you are getting a home loan, you will always have to purchase a lender’s policy of title insurance. Even when you have a choice, I always recommend that everyone buying a home get an owner?s title insurance policy. For a low, one-time cost, you get an...
by Brian Huddleston | Jan 9, 2018 | Legislation & Case Notes, Real Estate Law
It may be tempting for a farming operation with fallow acreage to consider leasing to a tenant for above-market rents. However, when the offer is coming from a marijuana grower, the would-be landlord will have a number of additional legal issues to consider. It bears...
by Brian Huddleston | Jan 4, 2018 | Legislation & Case Notes, Real Estate Law
OKLAHOMA CITY ? Governor Mary Fallin today set a June election date for the medical marijuana ballot measure. Fallin filed an executive proclamation placing State Question 788 on the June 26 primary election ballot. The governor?s other option was to place the issue...
by Brian Huddleston | Jan 4, 2018 | Legislation & Case Notes
Attorney General Jeff Sessions today issued a Memo that rescinds the 2013 Cole Memo regarding federal enforcement in states that legalized cannabis. It is not immediately clear how the Justice Department’s new approach will affect the...
by Brian Huddleston | Dec 24, 2017 | Legislation & Case Notes, Real Estate Law
As Oklahoma citizens consider State Question 788, landlords and property managers need to know how to address medical marijuana use in their buildings. The supremacy clause in the U.S. Constitution says that states must not (and cannot) enact laws that conflict with...
by Brian Huddleston | Dec 9, 2017 | Legislation & Case Notes
While supporters had gathered enough signatures to place the measure before voters in 2016, advocates had filed a lawsuit against then-Attorney General E. Scott Pruit after he rewrote the initiative?s ballot title, delaying the vote. Advocates were successful in their...
by Brian Huddleston | Dec 9, 2017 | Legislation & Case Notes
Oklahoma has expanded?its limited protection for patients who use low-THC, high-CBD cannabis oil for certain medical conditions, which was initially passed in 2015. HB 2835 allows adults to use low-THC cannabis oil (minors were already covered by existing law) and...
by Brian Huddleston | Dec 9, 2017 | Legislation & Case Notes
On November 8 2016, 58% of Oklahoma voters supported State Question 780, which makes all marijuana possession offenses misdemeanors effective July 1, 2017. Oklahoma still has further to go, as the penalty for first-time marijuana possession will remain up to one year...
by Brian Huddleston | Nov 9, 2017 | Legislation & Case Notes
If you do not stop when those red lights are activated for a school bus, or a church bus, and you drive past that bus, in addition to a fine and other penalties such as points on your license and record, you’re going to lose your driver’s license for a...
