Editor’s observe: this text was written by LJ Dawson for The Outlaw Report, and has been republished with permission.
Maryland is the newest sufferer of a California lawyer and hashish entrepreneur’s serial suing of state hashish social fairness applications.
Jeffrey Jensen filed a lawsuit on behalf of his spouse Justyna Jensen, each of whom stay in Pasadena, California. Jensen claims that the Maryland Hashish Administration’s requirement of state residency to qualify for social fairness is unconstitutional.
Jensen is utilizing the dormant commerce clause of the structure to allege that Maryland is discriminating in opposition to Justyna as a result of she is an out-of-state resident. Although her college met the necessities for social fairness candidates with 40% of the people qualifying to obtain a Pell Grant, she was denied as a result of the college was in California not Maryland.
MCA has till Feb. 20, 2024 to file a response in court docket to the lawsuit. Jensen has used the dormant commerce clause to file lawsuits elsewhere.
His Maryland case is one in every of no less than six lawsuits he filed within the final two years in 4 states. He filed fits beneath related allegations in California, Washington and New York.
His first lawsuit in New York was settled out of court docket, and he efficiently secured a license in his settlement. However not earlier than inflicting a months-long injunction or halt of licensing in 2022. This pause brought on an already beleaguered New York market to lose much more worthwhile time in its try and launch.
Early this February, a federal New York choose rejected Jensen’s second case and plea for one more licensing injunction. She claimed that the general public curiosity of letting state-legal hashish companies launch overshadowed the lawsuit’s issues.
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