Lawsuits

Cannabis research company MMJ International Holdings is preparing a lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for allegedly failing to follow federal law as it concerns the cultivation of pharmaceutical cannabis.

The Cannabis Industry Association of Oregon and several of the state’s organic cannabis cultivators are suing to undo the Oregon Health Authority’s new Aspergillus mold testing requirements for cannabis products.

Medical cannabis business applicant Alabama Always LLC is accusing the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission of improperly erasing recordings of its meetings in violation of the state’s Open Meetings Act.

Florida-based Trulieve Cannabis Corp. filed a civil lawsuit against an Ohio medical cannabis company seeking payment of loans and other fees valued at $23.8 million.

Rhode Island dispensary Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center has filed a lawsuit over labor peace agreement provisions in the state’s cannabis legalization law, arguing it was “coerced into entering an oppressive collective bargaining agreement.”

Medical cannabis advocates in Oklahoma have filed a lawsuit challenging recent cannabis industry fee increases in the state.

Anti-cannabis advocates including the Cannabis Impact Prevention Coalition, the Cannabis Industry Victims Seeking Justice, and eight individuals associated with the groups this week filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court seeking to overturn the state’s cannabis legalization law.

California-based Glass House Brands has filed a defamation lawsuit against Catalyst Cannabis and its leadership in response to their claims — on both social media and in their own lawsuit — that Glass House is the “biggest black marketeer” of cannabis in American history.

Catalyst Cannabis has filed a lawsuit against fellow California-based cannabis firm Glass House Brands, alleging that Glass House — which produces more cannabis than any other state cultivator — is diverting huge amounts of product to the unregulated market.

Lawsuits filed by the Montana Association of Counties and the Montana Wildlife Federation are challenging Gov. Greg Gianforte’s (R) recent veto of a bill that sought to use cannabis taxes as a supplement to road maintenance funds.

A federal judge this week ordered Republic Brands, the makers of OCB rolling papers, to pay $1.5 million to HBI International, the parent company behind RAW rolling papers, for copyright and trade dress infringement.

The New York Cannabis Control Board voted to settle a lawsuit brought by a Michigan company that has for seven months prevented any new licenses from being awarded in five state regions.

Multiple Harlem-based businesses together filed a lawsuit this week that seeks to prevent the opening of a planned adult-use dispensary in the area.

Cookies CEO Berner responded to a recent lawsuit targeting himself and several other Cookies executives, calling the allegations — which accuse the company’s leadership of “pervasive self-dealing” and allege a pattern of personal benefits and kickbacks — “extremely false, harmful damaging claims.”

A Florida doctor is suing the Department of Health and two investigators who posed as patients for a medical cannabis sting operation that officials tried, and failed, to use to strip him of his medical license.

South Dakota-based 605 Cannabis is suing the state’s Department of Health, alleging regulatory overreach and the improper issuance of violations leading to more than $1 million worth of damages.

Seven police officers who helped carry out a raid on Afroman’s house in Ohio last year are now suing the artist over his use of footage from the raid, which depicts the officers’ faces, in music videos and on social media. The rapper says he plans to countersue.

New Jersey hemp company Delta Technologies is suing the Massachusetts-based biotech firm Salzman Group, claiming the company operated a “Ponzi scheme” which utilized more than $700,000 it raised from the firm for its own projects.

New York is being sued by several of its medical cannabis operators over the state’s plan to give the first adult-use retail cannabis licenses to social equity applicants.

Two South Dakota medical cannabis firms are suing a former political operative for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), accusing the defendant of defrauding the companies and their investors of about $1.7 million.

Rolling paper maker Republic Brands won a permanent injunction in federal court against HBI International, the maker of RAW® Organic Hemp rolling papers, which prohibits HBI from selling certain products and making certain promotional statements.

The New York City Police Department filed lawsuits on Tuesday aiming to shut down four companies that the police claim have been illegally selling cannabis products in Manhattan.

Hawthorne Collective Inc, a Scotts Miracle-Gro Co subsidiary, filed a lawsuit against cannabis company TerrAscend Corp and JW Asset Management LLC, an investment company, claiming the duo is violating U.S. antitrust laws.