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TEXAS v. FLORIDA et al. (1939)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
TEXAS v. FLORIDA et al.
Term: 1938
Important Dates
Argued: February 7, 1939
Decided: March 13, 1939
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Pierce Butler • Felix Frankfurter • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

TEXAS v. FLORIDA et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13, 1939. The case was argued before the court on February 7, 1939.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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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: Florida
  • Citation: 306 U.S. 398
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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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