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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA (2010)

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Term: 2009
Important Dates
Argued: October 13, 2009
Decided: January 20, 2010
Vote
5-4
Majority
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Anthony Kennedy • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Ruth Bader Ginsburg • John Roberts • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA v. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 2010. The case was argued before the court on October 13, 2009.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 5-4 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: South Carolina
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: North Carolina
  • Citation: 558 U.S. 256
  • 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: Samuel Alito

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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