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Eight licensed marijuana companies in New Mexico claim in a federal lawsuit that Border Patrol agents violated their constitutional rights when they seized more than $1 million worth of “state-legal cannabis products, cash, and other property” at interior checkpoints, court records show.
The lawsuit was filed this week against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
The suit, which claims violations of due process rights, demands a jury trial and an order that federal authorities return all seized property or its “equivalent wholesale/retail value.”
Greenspoon Marder are acting for the following
According to the lawsuit, the New Mexico plaintiffs suing Homeland Security and the Customs and Border Protection Agency are:
- Mesilla Valley Extracts, a licensed manufacturer in Las Cruces.
- Royal Cannabis, a vertically integrated licensed company that does business as Baked Chicken Farm, the operator of a large-scale cultivation facility in Berino, near the Texas border.
- Super Farm, which does business as Smokey Road Farms and is a vertically integrated licensee in La Mesa.
- Impact Farms, a microbusiness licensee in Albuquerque.
- Chadcor Holdings NM, which operates as Top Crop Cannabis and is a vertically integrated licensee in Las Cruces.
- Mylars, a licensed Las Cruces-based manufacturer and distributor.
- Rollin Love, a licensed retailer in Golondrinas.
- Desert Peaks Farms, a licensed cultivator in Mesilla Park,
Read full report
https://mjbizdaily.com/new-mexico-marijuana-firms-sue-federal-agencies-over-unlawful-seizures/
Alos see
https://unicourt.com/case/pc-db5-casegucff318c9ab81-1947947?init_S=ch_ltst
