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STATE OF MONTANA v. STATE OF WYOMING AND STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA (2016)

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STATE OF MONTANA v. STATE OF WYOMING AND STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA
Term: 2015
Important Dates
Decided: March 21, 2016
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

STATE OF MONTANA v. STATE OF WYOMING AND STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 21, 2016.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Montana
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Wyoming
  • Citation: 577 U.S. 423
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • 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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