The U.S. Supreme Court sided 5–4 on April 2 with a truck driver who was fired after failing a drug test following consumption of a pain-relief product marketed as drug-free.
The new decision affirms an appeals court ruling that permitted Douglas Horn to sue the product’s manufacturer, Medical Marijuana Inc., under a federal law that prosecutors use against organized crime. Horn will now be allowed to move forward with his lawsuit.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion in Medical Marijuana Inc. v. Horn. It was joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Samuel Alito, dissented….