The firm successfully obtained a dismissal with prejudice from the plaintiffs in a case in which plaintiffs had sued the firm’s clients for a plethora of causes of action arising from an alleged partnership agreement related to cannabis cultivation. Plaintiffs had asserted a cause of action for quiet title to real property that belonged to one of the firm’s clients, notwithstanding that that client was not a party to the alleged partnership agreement. Plaintiffs filed a lis pendens against real property owned by the defendant that was not a party to the partnership agreement. Plaintiffs’ complaint supported that claim with conclusions and speculation. Brian Carter and Margie Rice filed a motion to expunge the lis pendens, and the Sonoma County Superior Court granted the motion and awarded attorney fees pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 405.38. Carter and Rice also filed a motion for protective order with respect to sets of special interrogatories to each of the three defendants that exceeded the statutory limit of 35 by more than ten times that limit. With the motion to expunge granted and an order for attorney fees in hand, and the motion for protective order pending, plaintiffs agreed to dismiss their complaint with prejudice on terms exceedingly favorable to defendants. This case seems to demonstrate many of the attributes of contracts and agreements that have been entered into in the cannabis industry since legalization, in that parties are in a hurry and often fail to retain counsel, and things don’t always go as profitably as the parties hoped and planned, such that the parties end up in a dispute that results in expensive litigation. The Wild West lives again in the cannabis industry on the North Coast.