NEBRASKA v. IOWA (1972)

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NEBRASKA v. IOWA
Term: 1971
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1972
Decided: April 24, 1972
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White

NEBRASKA v. IOWA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 24, 1972. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1972.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Nebraska
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Iowa
  • Citation: 406 U.S. 117
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Brennan

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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