COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA (1907)

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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: March 11, 1907
Decided: May 27, 1907
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1907. The case was argued before the court on March 11, 1907.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Virginia
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: West Virginia
  • Citation: 206 U.S. 290
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

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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