Illinois’ Dispensary Licenses in Court

Two more lawsuits were filed this week in Illinois courts that may slow down a process that was supposed to have been completed on April 30.

Here’s a review of the cases holding up Illinois’ cannabis licenses.

One of the state’s main cannabis cases looks like it won’t find a resolution until next spring, at the earliest.

Two lawsuits in Cook County Circuit Court are moving forward, each with the potential to reveal inner workings of the state’s stumbling cannabis license process.

A Cook County Circuit judge ordered a stay to a lawsuit charging that Illinois’ dispensary licensing process is unconstitutional.

Illinois’ dispensary lotteries may be brought to a grinding halt by yet another lawsuit.

Today’s Illinois dispensary lotteries will proceed and winners can be announced, but the winners cannot be actually awarded their licenses until after an August 9 court hearing.

Newly selected Illinois cannabis dispensary license holders will not receive their license until August 30 at the earliest but the August 19 Tied Applicant Lottery will be allowed to go forward.

One judge ordered Illinois regulators to allow a dispensary license applicant into today’s Tied Applicant Lottery, while another Cook County judge threatened to add two more applicants.

One of the two plaintiffs in a Cook County Circuit Court case holding up 185 dispensary licenses from being distributed to winners of three Illinois dispensary license lotteries has told Grown In they are bowing out of the case.