STATE OF GEORGIA v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA (June 5, 1922)

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STATE OF GEORGIA v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Term: 1921
Important Dates
Decided: June 5, 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 June 5, 1922.

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

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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: 259 U.S. 572
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • 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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