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Drugs, Labor & Employment

You Can Still Be Fired for Marijuana Use — Even if It’s Medical Marijuana

January 24, 2008

As expected, Alex Coolman at Drug Law Blog is all over today’s Supreme Court decision in Ross v. Raginwire Telecommunications, Inc., case no. S138130 (Jan. 24, 2008), in which the divided Supremes hold that the Compassionate Use Act, which decriminalized medical use of marijuana, does not preclude an employer from terminating an employee for such use. Coolman’s analysis is a quick fix plus it is very detailed and includes YouTube video of portions of the oral argument and commentary on the tension created with City of Garden Grove v. Superior Court, which I blogged about here. Justice Kennard’s concurring and dissenting opinion in Ross notes Ragingwire’s argument that even Ross’s…

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Greg May
Drugs, Writ Practice, Writ Review, Writ Standing

Medical Marijuana Buzz . . . and Writ Standing, Too

November 29, 2007

Looks like the new marijuana radio talk show on Inland Empire radio station KCAA (which is also available via podcast, and which I learned about from this post at Drug Law Blog) will have plenty to talk about tomorrow. Yesterday, in City of Garden Grove v. Superior Court (Kha), case no. G036250 (4th Dist. Nov. 28, 2007) the Court of Appeal denied a writ petition by the City of Garden Grove (joined by 4 law enforcement associations and 15 cities all over the state as Amici Curiae) seeking to vacate a trial court order to its police department to return medical marijuana seized from a person that the DA declined…

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Greg May