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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA (1920)

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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1919
Important Dates
Decided: April 19, 1920
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 19, 1920.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Miscellaneous interstate relations conflict
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Pennsylvania
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: West Virginia
  • Citation: 252 U.S. 563
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • 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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