Hogan Lovells partners Neal Katyal and Sean Marotta have joined the legal team of a Colorado company trying to recover a tractor-trailer full of industrial hemp that Idaho police seized as contraband in January.

Big Sky Scientific, which is also represented by Stoel Rives attorneys, argued in a 306-page brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday that a federal court in Idaho erred last month when it refused to issue a preliminary injunction that would have returned the 6,700 pound shipment.