California: Judge Denies Request To Halt The Licensing Of Cannabis Stores

Santa Ana can move ahead with issuing licenses to 20 medical marijuana collectives after Superior Court Judge David R. Chafee denied a request to temporarily bar the city from implementing its pot shop ordinance.

The lawsuit -- which was brought by Rallo Law Firm, P.C. on behalf of dispensaries that didn’t win in the city’s lottery to determine which collectives could obtain an operating permit – contended that the lottery was unfair because it allowed submissions from applicants that should have been disqualified.

After the ruling Friday afternoon, Rallo Law Firm attorney Tin Westen said she disagreed with the judge’s decision because her clients – businessmen Tarune Dillon, John Mendoza and Ivan Nathanson – would suffer “irreparable harm” from the city’s issuance of licenses.

“We were happy at least that the public got to see all that went on in the application process, because I don’t know that everyone knows...

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