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LOUISIANA v. MISSISSIPPI (April 23, 1906)

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LOUISIANA v. MISSISSIPPI
Term: 1905
Important Dates
Decided: April 23, 1906
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

LOUISIANA v. MISSISSIPPI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 1906.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Louisiana
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Mississippi
  • Citation: 202 U.S. 58
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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