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STATES OF OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO (1991)

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STATES OF OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO
Term: 1990
Important Dates
Argued: April 16, 1991
Decided: June 17, 1991
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Thurgood Marshall • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Dissenting
Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia

STATES OF OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 17, 1991. The case was argued before the court on April 16, 1991.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 5-4 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1990s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Oklahoma
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New Mexico
  • Citation: 501 U.S. 221
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron 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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