The U.S. Supreme Court won’t referee an interstate dispute over the impact of Colorado’s legalization of marijuana on crime rates and drug use in surrounding areas.
The court announced without explanation Monday that it would not review the complaint Nebraska and Oklahoma filed against Colorado under the court’s so-called “original jurisdiction” over disputes between states. In that role, the justices could have taken up the case without the states first litigating the issue in lower courts.
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