STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. STATE OF TENNESSEE (1916)

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Decided: April 3, 1916
Vote
7-0
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. STATE OF TENNESSEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 3, 1916.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 7-0 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: North Carolina
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 240 U.S. 652
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • 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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