Author: Stephen Ascher

[ad_1] By Steven Ascher and Anna M.Windemuth The unique status of the cannabis business —  legal in a majority of states, but still illegal under federal law — creates a thorny problem for litigants: Federal courts sometimes refuse to hear cannabis-related disputes on the ground that a court will not order a party to engage in illegal conduct. As a result, a federal court is unlikely to hear a claim seeking, for instance, delivery of a shipment of cannabis, or payment for a shipment of cannabis. Similarly, insolvent cannabis producers and distributors cannot file for bankruptcy in federal courts, because…