Choose denies Nolan new trial in case over River Valley license

Circuit Choose Herb Wright has denied the proprietor of an embattled Fort Smith cultivation facility from intervening in a case that would decide his enterprise’ destiny and denied him a brand new trial within the matter in a pair of rulings issued Monday. 

Wright denied Storm Nolan, the proprietor of River Valley Aid cultivation facility, the chance to be part of the case that has put his enterprise on a path towards having its cultivation license stripped. In his ruling Monday, Wright said that he was denying this attempt to intervene for a similar causes that he denied Nolan’s earlier try and intervene earlier this month. 

Wright had beforehand stated the movement to intervene was “premature and that there was no exhibiting that aid couldn’t be afforded to the events in his absence.”

Wright also denied Nolan’s motion for a new trial Monday, saying that, since Nolan was not allowed to intervene within the case, he was not a celebration to the case and that his movement for a brand new trial is “not correctly earlier than the Courtroom and moot.” 

Nolan filed motions last week, asking to intervene within the case and for a brand new trial. 

Wright dominated earlier this month that the state Medical Marijuana Commission erred when it awarded a cultivation license to Nolan. 

Wright sided with plaintiff 2600 Holdings (doing enterprise as Southern Roots) that Nolan’s utility referred to as for utilizing a facility that was lower than 3,000 from the Sebastian County Juvenile Detention Facility, which met the fee’s definition of a faculty. Wright additionally sided with 2600 Holdings that Nolan’s license was awarded to a enterprise entity that was completely different than the one which initially utilized for the license.

Since Wright’s preliminary ruling, the state sent Wright a letter saying it was moving forward with revoking Nolan’s license. The Alcoholic Beverage Control division has set a Nov. 28 revocation hearing during which Nolan will go earlier than director Doralee Chandler. A ruling by Chandler might be appealed to the complete ABC board and a ruling by that board might be appealed to circuit court docket, based on Scott Hardin, spokesman for the ABC. 

Abtin Mehdizadegan, lawyer for 2600 Holdings, filed an emergency movement with Wright final week, asking the choose to enforce the court, enjoin the ABC from holding the hearings and requiring state officials to show why they should not be held in contempt.

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