Attorney general of the United States's workplace must be disqualified in cannabis case, complainant states

RESIGNATION LETTER: Doralee Chandler, director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control division, sent a letter of resignation and will take another position in state government.

The plaintiff in a long-running case over a medical cannabis cultivation license asked a circuit judge today to disqualify the state attorney general's workplace from representing the accuseds in the event.

2600 Holdings, the plaintiff in a case over River Valley Relief's cultivation authorization, asked Circuit Judge Herbert Wright in a filing today to disqualify the workplace from representing the state firms that are defendants in the case..

The office has a dispute of interest associated to the participation of Doralee Chandler, 2600 Holdings' lawyer Abtin Mehdizadegan argued in the filing. Chandler is previous director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control department and is now the deputy attorney general for state firms.

Chandler's involvement in the event is considerable. She was deposed in the case for 2 days and, once Wright ruled in 2015 that River Valley need to not have actually gotten an authorization, she led a hearing on the matter and revoked River Valley's license..
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Today's filing describes Chandler as an "essential and essential witness" and states that the Rules of Professional Conduct "restricts a legal representative from serving as an advocate in a matter where the attorney is likely to be a required witness.".

Chandler has actually retained lawyers to represent her in the event, court filings reveal..
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The attorney general of the United States's workplace tried to withdraw from the case in October, however Wright denied the demand. Mehdizadegan pointed out that filing in which the chief law officer's workplace stated it had a conflict of interest however did not divulge the dispute..

The accuseds in the case are the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control division and the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission..

In October, the chief law officer's office submitted 2 actions to the plaintiff's ask for summary judgement: one action on behalf of the state Medical Marijuana Commission and one on behalf of the Department of Finance and Administration and the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control division.

Wright ruled last year that the state Medical Marijuana Commission erred when it awarded a cultivation permit to River Valley Relief. The complainants in the event argued that the location of the facility in River Valley's application was too near a school, that the original company entity had been dissolved which the owner no longer possessed the residential or commercial property in his initial application..
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In a related matter at tomorrow's Medical Marijuana Commission conference, the commission will think about whether to give River Valley Relief's yearly authorization renewal. Mehdizadegan has argued that giving the renewal would be an offense of the Supreme Court order to keep the status quo as it thinks about the interest Wright's judgment.