STATE OF KANSAS v. STATE OF COLORADO (2004)

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STATE OF KANSAS v. STATE OF COLORADO
Term: 2004
Important Dates
Argued: October 4, 2004
Decided: December 7, 2004
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter
Concurring
Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

STATE OF KANSAS v. STATE OF COLORADO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 7, 2004. The case was argued before the court on October 4, 2004.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 8-1 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: 543 U.S. 86
  • 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: Stephen Breyer

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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