Commentaries by W. David Ball

Is the Nebraska/Oklahoma Pot Suit Preempted?

March 17, 2015 04:30:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist W. David Ball of Santa Clara Law, discusses the legal framework behind the Nebraska and Oklahoma law suit against Colorado to invalidate Colorado's marijuana law...In December 2014, Oklahoma and Nebraska took the unusual step of filing a...

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UN deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait expires

On January 15, 1991, the deadline issued by United Nations for Iraq to withdraw its troops from of Kuwait expired. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq until January 15, 1991 to leave.

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On January 15, 1929, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University and read King's 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech made at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.