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THE STATE OF FLORIDA, COMPLAINANT, v. THE STATE OF GEORGIA (1855)

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THE STATE OF FLORIDA, COMPLAINANT, v. THE STATE OF GEORGIA
Term: 1854
Important Dates
Argued: January 8, 1855
Decided: March 6, 1855
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
5-4
Majority
John Catron • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
John Archibald Campbell • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Peter Vivian Daniel • John McLean

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, COMPLAINANT, v. THE STATE OF GEORGIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1855. The case was argued before the court on January 8, 1855.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1850s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Florida
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Georgia
  • Citation: 58 U.S. 478
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Roger Brooke Taney

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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