June 01, 2023
New York cannabis regulators will award a retail dispensary permit to a Michigan man's company, both ending his lawsuit claiming its residency requirements were unconstitutional and lifting a court-issued moratorium on granting cannabis licenses in one upstate area, according to a deal approved by a New York federal judge on Thursday.
May 30, 2023
New York cannabis regulators on Tuesday voted to settle a lawsuit that was hindering them from issuing the first retail marijuana licenses in one upstate region.
May 09, 2023
A New York magistrate judge gave state cannabis regulators more time to respond to discovery demands after they claimed to be nearing a draft agreement with the Michigander who is suing over residency requirements for pot licenses, despite plaintiff accusations that settlement talks are "mere delay tactics."
January 31, 2023
A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected state cannabis regulators' bid to revise a November order blocking the issuance of retail marijuana licenses for five regions across the Empire State.
January 02, 2023
The First Circuit ruled in 2022 that the constitutional doctrine known as the dormant commerce clause applied to Maine's medical marijuana industry, and 2023 could see even more courts take up the issue, with wide-ranging implications for the cannabis industry.
December 14, 2022
A Michigander who's suing New York over its residency requirements for cannabis licenses has asked a federal judge to reject a bid by the state government seeking to narrow the court-ordered moratorium on new licenses, calling it a "backdoor denial" of an already granted motion.
December 09, 2022
New York cannabis regulators have said they will appeal a November court order that blocked them from issuing retail marijuana licenses in five regions across the state if the district judge doesn't agree to limit the scope of the order.
November 22, 2022
New York cannabis regulators on Tuesday asked the Albany federal judge who temporarily blocked retail marijuana license awards for five state regions to narrow the injunction to just the Finger Lakes, or to stay the order pending the outcome of the state's appeal.
November 10, 2022
A New York federal judge on Thursday agreed to block Empire State cannabis regulators from issuing the first marijuana retail licenses for five geographic regions across the state, after a would-be applicant from Michigan said the process was discriminatory.
November 04, 2022
An aspiring cannabis seller told a New York federal judge on Friday that state regulators were working at "breakneck speed" to issue the first batch of marijuana retail licenses and should not get to keep delaying a hearing on his suit challenging their licensing scheme.