Georgia’s medical marijuana licensing protest litigation saw major developments on Oct, 12, when a highly anticipated state Court of Appeals opinion authored by Judge Trea Pipkin closed off one of the protestors’ major avenues of appeal.

The protestors, medical marijuana companies that lost the bidding process to get production licenses, are fighting the loss on two fronts—by seeking judicial review of the licensing decision under the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and through filing writ of certiorari actions in the Superior Court of Fulton County. The winning license bidders persuaded the trial courts the APA claims were filed in for dismissal and those cases ended up for consideration by the Court of Appeals.

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