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STATE OF GEORGIA v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA (January 30, 1922)

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STATE OF GEORGIA v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: January 4, 1922
Decided: January 30, 1922
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

STATE OF GEORGIA v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 30, 1922. The case was argued before the court on January 4, 1922.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Georgia
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: South Carolina
  • Citation: 257 U.S. 516
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Hessin Clarke

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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