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STATE OF WYOMING v. STATE OF COLORADO et al. (1917)

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STATE OF WYOMING v. STATE OF COLORADO et al.
Term: 1916
Important Dates
Argued: December 6, 1916
Decided: March 6, 1917
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

STATE OF WYOMING v. STATE OF COLORADO et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1917. The case was argued before the court on December 6, 1916.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Wyoming
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Colorado
  • Citation: 243 U.S. 622
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • 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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