“I’m asking this court to make findings as to the proper score for each of these applications.”
By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent
The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday challenging an appeals court’s decision in March directing the state to award cannabis company Hippos LLC 13 facility licenses after finding the 2019 application scoring process was inconsistent.
It’s been five years since the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission denied Hippos’s appeal over its applications for marijuana facility licenses, after the company argued identical applications received different scores from the same grader.
That dispute has since worked its way through the state court system and landed Wednesday before the seven Missouri Supreme Court judges.
At issue is whether the commission acted properly when it rescored Hippos’s applications by selecting the most common score given to answers the company was challenging—or whether that approach was “completely flawed,” as three appellate judges found in March, because the grader left no notes explaining the scores.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, which oversees the state’s cannabis regulatory agency, argued Wednesday that the commission acted correctly and did a thorough investigation of the scores given to Hippos’s applications. The department also urged the court to focus
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