RIEVES v. TOWN OF SMYRNA, TENNESSEE

Nos. 19-5319/5320/5347.

959 F.3d 678 (2020)

James Swain RIEVES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TOWN OF SMYRNA, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants, Jennings S. Jones (19-5319); John Zimmerman (19-5320); Mike Fitzhugh (19-5347), Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: May 15, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: Heather C. Ross , OFFICE OF THE TENNESSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant Jennings Jones. William T. Ramsey , Blind Akrawi , NEAL & HARWELL, PLC, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant John Zimmerman. Nicholas C. Christiansen , Roger W. Hudson , Daniel W. Ames , HUDSON, REED & McCREARY, PLLC, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for Appellant Mike Fitzhugh. Frank Brazil , BRAZIL CLARK, PLLC, Nashville, Tennessee, Christopher W. Smith , DAVID RANDOLPH SMITH & ASSOCIATES, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: GIBBONS, KETHLEDGE, and BUSH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

On February 12, 2018, law enforcement officials in Rutherford County, Tennessee, executed "Operation Candy Crush." Officials raided certain stores within the county selling legal cannabidiol ("CBD") products and arrested their owners. The seventeen store owners alleged that law enforcement violated...

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