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May 26, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a broad mix of cross-border corporate control disputes, merger settlements, startup equity fights, advancement claims and board oversight litigation, while also weighing fallout from high-profile deals involving Microsoft Corp., The Boeing Co. and Nikola Corp.
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May 26, 2026
A California attorney who has challenged state and local cannabis licensing policies across the country on the grounds that they discriminate against out-of-state players urged the Ninth Circuit not to dispose of his challenge to Los Angeles' social equity program.
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May 26, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has thrown out a challenge to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services program to give Medicare beneficiaries access to federally legal hemp products, finding none of the groups or individuals who aimed to block the program have standing.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
A California federal judge has dismissed racketeering claims brought against a kratom supplements company accused of hiding the addictive nature of its products from consumers.
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May 22, 2026
Colorado's marijuana regulator used an "unlawful" method for calculating average market rates of cannabis that resulted in inflated excise taxes being assessed against state-licensed operators, a proposed class action filed Thursday in Denver state court alleges.
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May 22, 2026
California-based brewer Riip Inc. is suing a seller of hemp-based THC products, alleging that its line of "Riipit" products knowingly infringes on its own branding.
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May 21, 2026
Vape companies are looking to stop a Pennsylvania law that would effectively ban most e-cigarettes, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the statute is unconstitutional, would destroy roughly $2 million of their inventory and targets products that federal regulators say helps smokers quit.
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May 21, 2026
Virginia's governor vetoed legislation to establish adult-use marijuana sales, keeping the state in cannabis legal limbo; Illinois lawmakers introduced legislation to rein in hemp products, aligning state policy with an upcoming shift in federal law; and Louisiana lawmakers sent a bill to the governor that would allow terminally ill patients to access medical marijuana in healthcare facilities. Here are the major moves in cannabis and psychedelics legislation from the past week.
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May 21, 2026
There's little chance that the Idaho state health director can ditch litigation by mothers challenging the automatic placement of women on the child abuse registry for prenatal THC use, a federal judge said after taking a "preliminary peek" at the state's pending motion to dismiss.
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May 21, 2026
The acting comptroller for Texas is asking the Fifth Circuit to overturn an order allowing vape companies and a trade association to pursue a suit challenging a state law banning e-cigarette products that use liquids from China and other "adversaries," saying the comptroller is entitled to sovereign immunity.
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May 20, 2026
An Ohio cannabis company is urging a federal court to cancel the trademark of Klutch Sports Group, an agency representing athletes including LeBron James, according to counterclaims responding to the talent firm's lawsuit accusing the dispensary chain of stealing the "Klutch" brand name to confuse the public.
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May 20, 2026
A careful reading of the law shows marijuana is not, as the IRS argues, a controlled substance under federal law, a New Mexico cannabis dispensary operator told the U.S. Tax Court in support of its business expense deductions claimed during 2017 through 2019.
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May 20, 2026
Attorneys for two ousted co-founders of a cannabis accessories startup told the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday that a lower court made a legal error when it handed their clients back shares in the company that wrongfully took them, arguing that cash damages, not a return of stock, are the only recognized remedy when corporate shares are converted.
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May 20, 2026
Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra's next act in government is poised to unfold on a new stage in California, but financial firms will likely recognize the script. Watch this space, attorneys tell Law360.
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May 20, 2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's veto of legislation to tax and regulate the sale of adult-use cannabis will keep the commonwealth in a state of cannabis legal limbo for the foreseeable future.
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May 20, 2026
A proposed class of budtenders for dispensaries run by GL Partners Inc. is suing in Missouri federal court, alleging the dispensaries are violating federal labor laws by sharing tips with managerial staff and otherwise mishandling them to use as petty cash or to balance cash registers.
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May 19, 2026
A cannabis investment company can't sue a city within metro Detroit for refusing to allow it to open a dispensary, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying a local official's alleged promise to "grandfather" the company in, despite a ban on new retailers, can't supersede a city ordinance.
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May 19, 2026
University of Colorado Board of Regents members sanctioned the board's sole Black member for speaking out against a university-funded campaign that she says pushed false and racist stereotypes about Black people, the board member alleged in Colorado federal court.
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May 19, 2026
A realty firm, a dispensary and its owner are urging an Illinois federal court to toss racketeering claims from another dispensary alleging they helped plan an illegal "raid," saying the complaint is abusing the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act process and fails to meet any of its pleading requirements.
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May 19, 2026
A former in-house attorney, who worked for Lyft and the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, has left her most recent role as a GrayRobinson PC attorney to join Spencer Fane LLP's newly launched food and beverage group.
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May 18, 2026
Investors have agreed to end a lawsuit against the former CEO of cannabis firm Devi Holdings Inc., claiming the executive and early investors hid over $13 million in unpaid taxes to induce $25.9 million in stock purchases that later became worthless, according to a Florida federal judge's order.
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May 18, 2026
A Florida jury heard opening arguments Monday in a trial over the lung cancer death of a woman who started smoking at a time when Philip Morris was "wallpapering" the nation with pro-smoking messages, her family's lawyer said.
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May 18, 2026
A Florida bank must hold off on selling its assets and postpone its annual shareholder meeting, a federal judge ruled, saying the bank's biggest shareholder presented credible evidence suggesting that the directors rigged corporate bylaws to keep themselves in charge following a federal crackdown on the bank's cannabis-related business.
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May 18, 2026
Multistate cannabis operator TerrAscend erroneously received more than $8 million in tax refunds that should never have been issued because of a federal law that bars traffickers in controlled substances from taking business deductions, the U.S. government said in a new lawsuit.