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TEXAS v. NEW MEXICO (1980)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
TEXAS v. NEW MEXICO
Term: 1979
Important Dates
Argued: March 24, 1980
Decided: May 19, 1980
Vote
8-1
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

TEXAS v. NEW MEXICO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 19, 1980. The case was argued before the court on March 24, 1980.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 8-1 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Texas
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: New Mexico
  • Citation: 446 U.S. 540
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • 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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