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ARKANSAS v. TENNESSEE (February 25, 1970)

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ARKANSAS v. TENNESSEE
Term: 1969
Important Dates
Decided: February 25, 1970
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Warren Burger • William Douglas • John Harlan II • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart • Byron White

ARKANSAS v. TENNESSEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1970.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 8-0 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Arkansas
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 397 U.S. 91
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as unspecifiable.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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