TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Dec 17, 2015

The Obama administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse to hear a challenge to Colorado’s legalization of marijuana, USA Today reports. Nebraska and Colorado claim Colorado’s marijuana system has created “modern-day bootleggers” who are selling marijuana illegally across state lines. “Entertaining the type of dispute at issue here — essentially that one state’s laws make it more likely that third parties will violate federal and state law in another state — would represent a substantial and unwarranted expansion of this court’s original jurisdiction,” Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. said.