The commission is accused of engaging in illegal voting, holding illegal deliberations, and utilizing improper parliamentary procedures.

Not surprisingly, multiple lawsuits are expected to be filed in Montgomery Circuit Court over the next few days, alleging the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission violated the state’s Open Meetings Act last week during its hearing to award cannabis licenses.

One of the suits, filed on behalf of Always Alabama, is seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the commission after it conducted a lengthy executive session during its Aug. 10 meeting.

Many observers have accused the commission of improper use of the open meetings act to obscure the public view of its decision-making process, which has at times been flawed and controversial.

According to an evaluation by the Alabama Bar Association: “Under the OMA, sunshine reigns. Executive sessions are to be the exception rather than the rule.”

The suit cites the commission’s continued “penchant for conducting its business in secret, engaging in, among other things, repeated violations of the OMA,” as Alabama Always stated in its original case in June.

Alabama Always previously asked Montgomery Circuit Judge James Anderson to preclude the Commission from entering executive session.

During the Aug. 7 hearing, Judge Anderson asked the Commission’s counsel whether it intended to follow the law. [Read More @ Alabama Political Reporter]