Case Title: Doe v. Alternative Medicine Md.

Citation: 

Docket Number: 98pc/16

State: maryland

Court: Maryland Supreme Court

Date: 2017-07-28T00:00:00Z

Document:
Circuit Court for Baltimore City 
Case No. 24-C-16-005801 
 
Argued: July 27, 2017 
 
 
    
 
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS  
 
OF MARYLAND 
 
No. 98 
 
 
September Term, 2016 
 
 
 
          
  JANE AND JOHN DOE et al. 
 
 
                v. 
 
 
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE MARYLAND,  
LLC et al. 
       
     
 
 
 
Barbera, C.J.  
Greene 
McDonald 
Watts 
Hotten 
Getty, 
Wilner, Alan M. (Senior Judge, 
(Specially Assigned) 
 
 JJ. 
 
 
 
 
      PER CURIAM ORDER 
 
 
 
Filed: July 28, 2017 
  
 
 
 
 
 
JANE AND JOHN DOE, et al. 
  
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   September Term, 2016 
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 
 
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MARYLAND, LLC, et al.  
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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PER CURIAM ORDER 
 
For reasons to be stated in an opinion later to be filed, it is this 28th day of July, 
2017 
ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the orders of the Circuit 
Court for Baltimore City denying intervention to Holistic Industries, LLC, Curio Cultivation, LLC, 
ForwardGro, LLC, SunMed Growers, LLC, Doctor’s Orders Maryland, LLC, Green Leaf Medical, 
LLC, Kind Therapeutics, USA, LLC, and Temescal Wellness of MD, LLC (“Growers”) be, and 
they are hereby reversed, and the case is remanded to that Court with instruction to grant 
intervention as of right with respect to the aforementioned Growers, pursuant to Maryland Rules 
2-211 and 2-214(a) and Section 3-405(a)(1) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article; and it 
is further 
ORDERED, that the orders of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City denying 
intervention to Jane and John Doe (“Patients”) be, and they are hereby affirmed; and it is further 
ORDERED, that the orders of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City denying 
intervention to the Coalition for Patient Medicinal Access, LLC and Maryland Wholesale Medical 
Cannabis Trade Association be, and they are hereby affirmed; and it is further 
 
 
ORDERED, that this case is remanded to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City for 
further proceedings including determination of the issue of laches raised in this appeal, this Court 
having determined that it will not address that issue in this appeal; and it is further 
ORDERED, that the stay issued by this Court of June 2, 2017 be, and it is hereby 
lifted; and it is further 
ORDERED, that the costs in this Court and in the Court of Special Appeals to be 
paid 50% by Alternative Medicine Maryland, LLC, 25% by Coalition for Patient Medicinal 
Access, LLC and 25% by Maryland Wholesale Medical Cannabis Trade Association.  Mandate 
to be issued forthwith.              
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Mary Ellen Barbera  
 
 
 
 
 
 
     Chief Judge