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COLORADO v. NEW MEXICO et al. (1984)

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COLORADO v. NEW MEXICO et al.
Term: 1983
Important Dates
Argued: January 9, 1984
Decided: June 4, 1984
Vote
8-1
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Byron White
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

COLORADO v. NEW MEXICO et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 4, 1984. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1984.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 8-1 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Colorado
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New Mexico
  • Citation: 467 U.S. 310
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Sandra Day O'Connor

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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