Item 1. Legal Proceedings
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
On July 22, 2020, the Company was served with a statement of claim in which it was named, together with several other Canadian licensed cannabis producers, as a defendant in a proposed class action proceeding filed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants, including the Company, marketed and sold medicinal and recreational cannabis products with an advertised content of THC and CBD that was inaccurate and that the amount of the difference between the actual amount of THC and/or CBD in the medicinal and recreational cannabis products and the amounts of THC and/or CBD listed on the label was outside the permissible variability limits. The proposed class has not yet been certified. The Company is currently evaluating the merits of the claim and has not yet been required to respond.
The Company has been named as a defendant, together with all of PharmHouse, Canopy Rivers, TerrAscend Corp. and TerrAscend Canada Inc., in an action commenced in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sitting at Windsor on August 31, 2020 by the PharmHouse JV Partner. The claim seeks, amongst other things, damages in the amount of $500,000,000 for bad faith, fraud, civil conspiracy, breach of the duty of honesty and good faith in contractual relations and breach of fiduciary duty. Canopy Growth is party to an offtake agreement with PharmHouse. The statement of claim was never served on the Company. The action was stayed by a court order made September 15, 2020, by the Ontario Superior Court at Toronto (Commercial List) (the “Court”) on application made by PharmHouse pursuant to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. On October 30, 2020, the Courts made a further endorsement directing that the PharmHouse JV Partner will discontinue the aforementioned claim against all defendants, entirely without prejudice in all respects to the PharmHouse JV Partner’s rights to recommence the claim against all defendants other than PharmHouse. The PharmHouse JV Partner may not recommence the claim until at least January 1, 2021.
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Item 1A. Risk Factors.
For information regarding factors that could affect our results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, see the risk factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A in our Annual Report. There have been no material changes to the risk factors previously disclosed in Part I, Item 1A in our Annual Report.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
None.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not applicable.
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