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STATE OF MARYLAND v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA (May 31, 1910)

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STATE OF MARYLAND v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1909
Important Dates
Decided: May 31, 1910
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

STATE OF MARYLAND v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1910.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Maryland
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: West Virginia
  • Citation: 217 U.S. 577
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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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