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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA (December 3, 1923)

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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1923
Important Dates
Argued: December 8, 1921
Decided: December 3, 1923
Vote
5-3
Majority
Pierce Butler • Joseph McKenna • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 3, 1923. The case was argued before the court on December 8, 1921.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 5-3 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Pennsylvania
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: West Virginia
  • Citation: 263 U.S. 350
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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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