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Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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

DarrowEverett LLP

Does Involvement in the Cannabis Industry Preclude Your Business From Bankruptcy Protection?

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Despite the growing public acceptance of marijuana and the fact that a majority of states have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes (37 states and the District of Columbia have enacted medical marijuana legislation),...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

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

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“[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

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

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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

Amundsen Davis LLC

A Crack In The Courthouse Doors For Marijuana Related Businesses And The Availability Of Bankruptcy Protection

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A recent decision from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit is another in a small, but growing line of cases finding that bankruptcy cases need not be mandatorily dismissed simply because they touch upon...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

High Court Faced with the Issue of Marijuana Legalization in Bankruptcy

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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

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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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