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Three policemen who stand accused of illegally jumping a man's gate to investigate whether he was growing marijuana should not have to slog through discovery if qualified immunity shields them from the claims, a New Mexico federal court has ruled.

An Indiana state appeals court tossed a lawsuit accusing a chiropractor of fracturing a woman's spine, which allegedly led to her death, finding the plaintiff expert's medical opinion faulty because it was written by a physical therapist and not a doctor.

An Oklahoma cannabis cultivator is suing Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. claiming its marijuana crop and part of its farming facility were destroyed when the Luxx grow lamps the gardening product maker sells spontaneously exploded, according to a lawsuit removed to federal court on Wednesday.

The Eleventh Circuit has tossed a wrongful death suit filed by parents who claim that a Costa Rican boutique hotel failed to maintain its trees, resulting in one falling and killing their 14-year-old daughter, finding that Florida federal courts did not have jurisdiction over the business.

A Senate Democrat has introduced a bill that would require the Small Business Administration to give loans to companies directly or indirectly engaged in the state-sanctioned cannabis industry, according to an announcement from Sen. Jacky Rosen's office.

A Ninth Circuit decision that ultimately allowed Los Angeles County to ban the sale of flavored vaping products could "neuter if not undermine" the federal government's authority to regulate tobacco and cause a slow shutdown of the entire e-cigarette market, a vaping industry group told the U.S. Supreme Court in an amicus brief.

A group of Illinois cannabis entrepreneurs has filed a $325 million lawsuit against a jet-setting investor who they claim skipped out on a $75 million deal to buy two Quad Cities dispensaries so she could help start a rival enterprise and become their "biggest competitor."

A federal court has tossed a Kansas delta-8 cannabinoid business owner's lawsuit against the state's governor and attorney general over $120,000 worth of property and cash taken during a local police raid, with the judge ruling the 2018 Farm Act doesn't give the company a right to sell hemp products.

A contractor for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles can't avoid compensating the automaker $3.8 million as its share of a $6.3 million verdict after a jury found both responsible for an ironworker's fall, an Illinois federal judge has ruled, saying the firm must pay while issues with its insurer are settled.

A South Carolina appellate panel shot down a mother's bid to overcome a verdict absolving a doctor of claims that she permanently injured a baby during a negligent delivery, rejecting the argument that the state's obstetric emergency statute did not apply.