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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA (1916)

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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Decided: June 12, 1916
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-0
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • 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 12, 1916.

In a 6-0 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: 241 U.S. 531
  • 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: Edward Douglass White

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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