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STATE OF NEBRASKA v. STATES OF WYOMING AND COLORADO (1995)

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STATE OF NEBRASKA v. STATES OF WYOMING AND COLORADO
Term: 1994
Important Dates
Argued: March 21, 1995
Decided: May 30, 1995
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Clarence Thomas

STATE OF NEBRASKA v. STATES OF WYOMING AND COLORADO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 30, 1995. The case was argued before the court on March 21, 1995.

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: Nebraska
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Wyoming
  • Citation: 515 U.S. 1
  • 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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