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STATE OF KANSAS, PLAINTIFF v. STATE OF COLORADO (2009)

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STATE OF KANSAS, PLAINTIFF v. STATE OF COLORADO
Term: 2008
Important Dates
Argued: December 1, 2008
Decided: March 9, 2009
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas
Concurring
John Roberts • David Souter

STATE OF KANSAS, PLAINTIFF v. STATE OF COLORADO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 9, 2009. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 2008.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Kansas
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Colorado
  • Citation: 556 U.S. 98
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Alito

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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