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MISSISSIPPI v. LOUISIANA (1955)

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MISSISSIPPI v. LOUISIANA
Term: 1955
Important Dates
Argued: October 11, 1955
Decided: October 17, 1955
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

MISSISSIPPI v. LOUISIANA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 17, 1955. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1955.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Mississippi
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 350 U.S. 5
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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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