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STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. STATE OF DELAWARE (2008)

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STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. STATE OF DELAWARE
Term: 2007
Important Dates
Argued: November 27, 2007
Decided: March 31, 2008
Vote
5-3
Majority
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
Samuel Alito • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens

STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. STATE OF DELAWARE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 31, 2008. The case was argued before the court on November 27, 2007.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 5-3 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: New Jersey
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Delaware
  • Citation: 552 U.S. 597
  • 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: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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