As New York continues to only let people with past pot convictions apply for cannabis dispensary licenses, another category of would-be “social equity” applicants—service-disabled veterans—have been forced to stand idle as the market grows, a new lawsuit alleges.

The complaint, filed late Wednesday by attorneys from Clark Smith Villazor of New York City in state Supreme Court of Albany County, appears to raise statutory construction and delegation of authority questions that often make it to the state’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals.

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