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TEXAS v. NEW MEXICO (1987)

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TEXAS v. NEW MEXICO
Term: 1986
Important Dates
Argued: April 29, 1987
Decided: June 8, 1987
Vote
8-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White

TEXAS v. NEW MEXICO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 8, 1987. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1987.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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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: 482 U.S. 124
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

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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