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KANSAS v. NEBRASKA AND COLORADO (2015)

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KANSAS v. NEBRASKA AND COLORADO
Term: 2014
Important Dates
Argued: October 14, 2014
Decided: February 24, 2015
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • Sonia Sotomayor
Concurring
John Roberts
Dissenting
Samuel Alito • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

KANSAS v. NEBRASKA AND COLORADO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 2015. The case was argued before the court on October 14, 2014.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 6-3 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Miscellaneous interstate relations conflict
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Kansas
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Nebraska
  • Citation: 574 U.S. 445
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Elena Kagan

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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