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Controlled Substances Act Chapter 13 Commercial Bankruptcy

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Impacts of Cannabis Rescheduling on Bankruptcy

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Despite the excitement of many over rescheduling cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III, the move does not make cannabis “legal” unless it is produced, sold, and used within the tightly regulated parameters of the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

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

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

The Rodman Law Group, LLC

Bankruptcy Alternatives for the Cannabis Industry

As many Americans are faced with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, some business owners are now tasked with creating a clear path forward without traditional means of financial relief. Of its many tragic consequences,...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

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

Burns & Levinson LLP

Don’t Bank(ruptcy) On It: In re Adair

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The U.S. Justice Department (“DOJ”) has said that an Oregon woman who is employed by a marijuana staffing agency cannot use bankruptcy protection because of her firm’s ties to the cannabis industry. The U.S. Trustee—a DOJ...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Green Hands Aren’t Unclean Hands: 9th Circuit BAP Retreats from Mandatory Dismissal in Marijuana Cases

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A 92-year-old landlord who leased a storefront to a marijuana dispensary will receive a new hearing after a court dismissed her bankruptcy case on the grounds that acceptance of rent payments from the dispensary disqualified...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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