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Article: State asks court to toss SD County medical marijuana suit.
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- San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Byline: Gig Conaughton
Mar. 22--NORTH COUNTY -- State officials formally asked judges to throw out San Diego County's precedent-setting lawsuit seeking to overturn California's 10-year-old medical marijuana law, saying that the only controversy over the law was in the minds of county supervisors.
State Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office argued in motions filed Tuesday in Superior Court that San Diego County supervisors simply "disliked" California's voter-approved "Compassionate Use Act," and that there was no legal reason for the courts to entertain their lawsuit.
Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Lockyer, said that the state's position was ...