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STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. STATE OF COLORADO (1925)

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. STATE OF COLORADO
Term: 1924
Important Dates
Decided: April 13, 1925
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

STATE OF NEW MEXICO v. STATE OF COLORADO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 13, 1925.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: New Mexico
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Colorado
  • Citation: 268 U.S. 108
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Terry Sanford

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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