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Civil Rights

Dec. 24, 2009

Judge Rules Against DMV

The California Department of Motor Vehicles must pay a national medical marijuana advocacy organization $69,400 in attorneys' fees for revoking patients' drivers licenses, a Merced County Superior Court judge has ruled.

By Dhyana Levey

Daily Journal Staff Writer

The California Department of Motor Vehicles must pay a national medical marijuana advocacy organization $69,400 in attorneys' fees for revoking patients' drivers licenses, a Merced County Superior Court judge has ruled.

The organization, Americans for Safe Access, filed a lawsuit against the DMV in November after it revoked a 53-year-old Atwater medical marijuana user's lic...

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