A Los Angeles-area a business owner won a rare $1.9 million verdict this month in a civil lawsuit over the licensing process for legal cannabis businesses, a ruling requiring local officials named to personally pay much of the damages.
The suit is notable not only because it names a host of officials in the city of Baldwin Park tied to alleged corruption around the process, but also because the defendants are on the hook for about $1.6 million of the verdict, while the city owes $290,000 for its “negligence.”
