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STATE OF ILLINOIS v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY (1991)

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STATE OF ILLINOIS v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
Term: 1990
Important Dates
Argued: March 18, 1991
Decided: May 28, 1991
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

STATE OF ILLINOIS v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 28, 1991. The case was argued before the court on March 18, 1991.

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: Illinois
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Kentucky
  • Citation: 500 U.S. 380
  • 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: David Souter

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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