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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA (1915)

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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1914
Important Dates
Argued: April 27, 1915
Decided: June 14, 1915
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • 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 June 14, 1915. The case was argued before the court on April 27, 1915.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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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: 238 U.S. 202
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Charles Evans Hughes

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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