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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA et al. (1918)

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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA et al.
Term: 1917
Important Dates
Decided: April 22, 1918
Outcome
No disposition
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 VIRGINIA v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 22, 1918.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling.

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 - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: West Virginia
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Virginia
  • Citation: 246 U.S. 565
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • 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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