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Budtender Bankruptcy Blindside

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In a recent legal development that underscores the intricate interplay between federal bankruptcy law and the cannabis industry, a court case has emerged involving a bankruptcy filing by an employee of a cannabis company....more

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Recent Bankruptcy Court Decision Leaves the Door Open to Bankruptcy Relief for Those in the Cannabis Industry

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A Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court’s recent appellate decision in Blumsack v. Harrington (In re Blumsack) leaves the door open for those employed in the cannabis industry to seek bankruptcy relief where certain conditions are...more

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The Unfair Contradiction of the Conflict of State and Federal Laws on the Bankruptcy Proceedings of Dispensary Employees

There is seemingly, in the opinion of a great number of bankruptcy courts, a conflict between the United States Bankruptcy Code requirements that a debtor reorganize or liquidate “in good faith,”  the federal Controlled...more

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Bankruptcy Court Finds Cannabis Employee Not Entitled to Chapter 13 Protection

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A bankruptcy court’s recent denial of a debtor’s petition for bankruptcy relief on narrow grounds casts a long shadow on the viability of bankruptcy relief for those employed in the cannabis industry. Though confining the...more

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Employee of Cannabis Dispensary Denied Personal Bankruptcy Relief

In a case of first impression, a bankruptcy court refused to allow an individual to receive bankruptcy relief because he was, and continued to be, employed by a cannabis business. The United States Bankruptcy Court for the...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Cannabis-Related Companies Can’t File Bankruptcy Until Federal Legalization

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Although the use of cannabis has been legalized in approximately 39 states and the District of Columbia¹ , cannabis is still illegal federally and classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act. As a...more

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Even Indirect Income from Cannabis Can Get You Banned From Bankruptcy

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Despite widespread trends in state-level legalization and decriminalization of high-THC cannabis and growing acceptance of cannabis among Americans, cannabis and cannabis products remain illegal under federal law.  At...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Bankruptcy Court Won’t Dabble in Case Concerning a Marijuana Business

“[E]nsnared between his involvement in a business that is legal under the laws of Arizona but illegal under federal law,” one debtor’s chapter 13 petition was recently dismissed due to his undisputed violations of the...more

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Sowing the Seeds of Marijuana Bankruptcy: a Look at Garvin v. Cook

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In a recent post, we discussed the ongoing personal bankruptcy case In Re Adair, in which a a United States Trustee is seeking to have the court dismiss a Chapter 13 plan of an individual that is employed by a...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

High Court Faced with the Issue of Marijuana Legalization in Bankruptcy

It was only a matter of time before the budding state laws legalizing marijuana use ran up against the federal government’s treatment of the drug as a controlled substance – and what better place for the two sides to meet...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Bankruptcy Courts Just Say No to the Marijuana Industry

Despite growing public acceptance of marijuana and the wide-spread passage of state laws legalizing marijuana for medicinal and even recreational purposes, marijuana remains a criminal offense under federal law which presents...more

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