-
August 20, 2026
Cannabis dispensary company Curaleaf Holdings urged an Illinois federal court Tuesday not to allow workers to proceed as a class and collective with their tipped wages claims, saying its tip practices didn't stem from a common corporate policy but rather a patchwork of "legacy practices inherited through serial acquisitions, varying by state, store, manager, and time."
-
August 20, 2026
A California federal judge has denied a former AT&T employee's bid to move his class action suit alleging violations of state labor law over a tobacco surcharge on employee health plans from federal to state court.
-
August 20, 2026
A California attorney who has challenged state and local cannabis licensing policies across the country on the grounds that they discriminate against out-of-state entrants told the Ninth Circuit that recent federal shifts on medical marijuana mean the dormant commerce clause should apply to the once-federally illicit industry.
-
August 20, 2026
The government cannot use records of past state ethics commission complaints against a Massachusetts sheriff in an extortion trial set to get underway next week, a federal judge said Thursday.
-
August 19, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday agreed with vaping companies that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority when it repeatedly blocked approval of flavored e-cigarettes without a notice-and-comment period, holding that the repeated denials constitute a rule that the agency must "rethink" or readopt properly.
-
August 19, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a cannabis company could use a former tobacco facility to process cannabis oil, rejecting the local zoning appeals board's argument that the repurposed facility wouldn't fall within the legal nonconforming use for the property.
-
August 19, 2026
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the nomination of White House aide Heidi Overton, an abortion opponent who has urged states to roll back vaccine requirements, to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
-
August 19, 2026
The state of Ohio urged the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a lower court's decision halting enforcement of a new state law that reclassified hemp products as marijuana, accusing the hemp companies who sought the injunction of pushing an "aggressive theory" of the case.
-
August 19, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the delay of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration rule requiring the addition of graphic warning labels to cigarette packages, saying tobacco companies that challenged the rule showed the agency likely overstepped its narrow authority to adjust existing warnings by creating two new ones.
-
August 18, 2026
A Florida entrepreneur and engineer accused of failing to deliver on a marijuana extraction system known as the Green Machine will get an opportunity to convince a jury he's not on the hook for the device, a state appeals court ruled, saying a trial is needed to determine whether he is personally responsible.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.