No. 20-8297

Michael Doyle Ruggles v. David Y. Ige, Governor of Hawaii, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-06-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-responsibility due-process equal-protection legal-ambiguity medical-cannabis patient-rights state-law state-responsibility vague-laws
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the State of Hawaii have a constitutional responsibility to draft laws that do not create ambiguities?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED | Does the State of Hawaii have a constitutional responsibility to draft laws that do not | stand silent and create ambiguities? Hawaii’s medical cannabis law does not tell : patients how to legally acquire cannabis plants and seeds to grow the cannabis ! medicine, therefore creating a legal problem for the created class. | Is it constitutional for the State of Hawaii to create a vague and irreconcilably conflicted medical cannabis law and then allow a situation where for the last 21 years the Hawaii AG, Police and Prosecutors profit off of the conflict and commit racketeering crimes against sick people under the guise of federal prohibition of cannabis? , How is it constitutional or equal protection of the law to draft a law that a separate class of 8 wealthy dispensary licensees can pay fees to the state and then have control of unlimited cannabis plants and medicine while after 21 years there is still no illegal way for the medical cannabis patients to obtain a cannabis seed or plant? Does a State have a responsibility to fix vague, ambiguous and conflicting laws or are they allowed to intentionally harm the created class indefinably for profit? | | | | 1 ! 008

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-07-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-07-09
Waiver of right of respondent Mitch Roth, Hawaii County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Paul Ferreira, Hawaii County Police Department to respond filed.
2021-06-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 14, 2021)

Attorneys

Michael Doyle Ruggles
Michael Doyle Ruggles — Petitioner
Mitch Roth, Hawaii County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Paul Ferreira, Hawaii County Police Department
Lerisa L. HeroldtCounty of Hawaii, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Respondent