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August 18, 2026
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday told an administrative law judge that federal restrictions should be loosened on marijuana and that opponents of cannabis reform brought a meritless challenge to health regulators' assessment of the drug's medical use.
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August 18, 2026
A California state appeals court has affirmed a lower court's determination that a partnership agreement tied to a group of medical marijuana dispensaries could not be enforced because it called for operations that violated a Los Angeles city ordinance
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August 18, 2026
A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday refused to completely toss a Marriott worker's proposed class action alleging the hotel giant's $15 weekly health fee on employees who use tobacco violated federal benefits law, but trimmed the dispute of some claims as insufficiently backed up.
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August 17, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission cannot constitutionally resolve a private patent dispute or bar the importation and domestic sales of an infringing party, Altria told the Fourth Circuit on Monday, asking the appellate court to block the vaping patent case Juul has brought before the ITC.
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August 17, 2026
Two Ohio investors claimed they were duped into sinking nearly $2 million on a Chicago dispensary under the promise that they would be partial owners, only to learn that their Illinois-based business partners would later recast the investments as gifts, according to a lawsuit filed in Ohio federal court.
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August 17, 2026
A Virginia federal judge has refused to block a state law placing new potency caps on THC products, ruling that the hemp businesses opposing the law are unlikely to succeed with claims that the law constitutes an unconstitutional taking.
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August 17, 2026
The North Carolina Supreme Court has again affirmed that the smell of cannabis can serve as the basis of a police search, noting that the court had already weighed in on the issue in a similar case earlier this year.
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August 14, 2026
The Second Circuit has ruled that a man cannot suppress a court-ordered DNA sample in his murder case even though police had not identified a viable comparison sample from the crime scene, becoming the first federal circuit court to address the question.
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August 14, 2026
Hemp manufacturers and sellers have asked the Sixth Circuit to uphold a lower court's ruling that paused the enforcement of an Ohio law that reclassified their products as marijuana.
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August 14, 2026
A married couple who operate a New Jersey cannabis dispensary and are accused of misusing roughly half of a $1.6 million business loan are "retaliating" against their lender, the financing company told a California federal court, asking that the entrepreneurs' countersuit be permanently tossed.
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August 14, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission vacated an administrative law judge's determination that a Juul vape patent was invalid, reviving the company's case against Altria's NJOY business because of a claim construction issue.
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August 14, 2026
A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday dissolved a court order blocking the state's social equity and adult-use cannabis licensing program, saying recent changes to state law mooted the reasons for enjoining the program in the first place.
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August 14, 2026
A Michigan man who was forced to urinate on his front lawn because police, who were conducting a search of his home, would not allow him to use his own bathroom had his Fourth Amendment rights violated, a Sixth Circuit panel determined on Thursday.
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August 14, 2026
The D.C. Circuit won't allow a convicted felon to have a guilty plea for possessing a firearm vacated, saying that his claim that he didn't know he was a felon is undermined by his having spent more than two years in prison.
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August 13, 2026
Several companies tied to Whole Herbs-branded kratom products must face a state lawsuit claiming they caused the overdose death of a 33-year-old man, the man's father said, arguing that Connecticut courts have jurisdiction over the companies because they ultimately knew their products would be sold there.
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August 13, 2026
New Jersey cannabis regulators filed a notice Thursday that they would appeal a federal court's recent ruling that a state rule requiring marijuana businesses enter into labor peace agreements with unions in order to secure a license is preempted by federal law.
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August 13, 2026
The Ninth Circuit won't reinstate a suit against the city of Tacoma, Washington, by the owner of a hemp company who alleges the city's police department illegally destroyed $2.75 million worth of industrial hemp as illegal cannabis, saying he failed to establish municipal liability.
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August 12, 2026
The Minnesota-based company behind the Loon vape brand is challenging in federal court a $630,000 fine that Wisconsin imposed after state regulators discovered banned e-cigarettes at two smoke shops, with the company arguing the penalty is unfair because it did not distribute the vapes to these retailers.
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August 12, 2026
A Texas federal judge has declined to halt new state-led restrictions redesignating intoxicating hemp products as Schedule I substances while a lawsuit challenging them plays out.
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August 12, 2026
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is urging the Fourth Circuit to throw out a hemp company's challenge to a recent rule allegedly designating a psychoactive hemp-derived compound as a Schedule I substance, saying the rule is a minor administrative change that cannot be challenged through a petition for review.
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August 11, 2026
The U.S. government is slamming as "exorbitant" a Phoenix church's request for $240,000 in fees — a sum racked up while the church was arguing for a $2 million attorney payout — arguing that the litigation was unnecessary because the church could have secured the right to use the psychoactive beverage ayahuasca in religious ceremonies via an administrative process.
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August 11, 2026
A New Jersey law requiring cannabis operators in the state to enter into labor peace agreements with labor unions in order to secure a license is preempted by federal labor law, a federal judge has ruled, providing the state with a quicker path to appeal in the Third Circuit.
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August 11, 2026
The day before a court hearing on a motion for a temporary restraining order, Virginia officials are urging a federal judge not to halt enforcement of the state's new THC potency caps, saying the hemp businesses' request to do so "rests on a distorted premise."
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August 11, 2026
Hemp and THC beverage maker Vireo Growth Inc. and its affiliates are asking a Minnesota federal court to toss the bulk of a suit alleging that Vireo failed to deliver on a partnership and interest contract, saying the plaintiffs' claims are largely based on a contract that was never signed or executed.
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August 10, 2026
Los Angeles cannabis entrepreneurs are suing their former attorney for legal malpractice in California state court, claiming that she caused the permanent end of their $5.7 million fire damage lawsuit against a landlord who they say allowed a "local transient" to start a fire on a neighboring property.