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STATE OF TEXAS v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO (1988)

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STATE OF TEXAS v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO
Term: 1987
Important Dates
Decided: March 28, 1988
Vote
8-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White

STATE OF TEXAS v. STATE OF NEW MEXICO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 28, 1988.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 8-0 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Miscellaneous interstate relations conflict
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Texas
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New Mexico
  • Citation: 485 U.S. 388
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • 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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