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Mississippi v. Louisiana, 506 U.S. 73 (1992)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Mississippi v. Louisiana, 506 U.S. 73 (1992)
Mississippi v. Louisiana No. 91-1158 Argued Nov. 9, 1992 Decided Dec. 14, 1992 506 U.S. 73
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
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After private plaintiffs brought suit against private defendants in the District Court to quiet title to certain land riparian to the Mississippi River, Louisiana intervened in the action and filed a third-party complaint against Mississippi seeking to determine the boundary between the two States in the vicinity of the disputed land. Following this Court’s denial of leave to Louisiana to file a bill of complaint against Mississippi in this Court, the District Court found the land in question to be part of Mississippi and quieted title in the plaintiffs. The Court of Appeals reversed.
Held: The uncompromising language of 28 U.S.C. § 1251(a), which gives to this Court "original and exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States" (emphasis added), deprived the District Court of jurisdiction over Louisiana’s third-party complaint against Mississippi. Though § 1251(a) is phrased in terms of a grant of jurisdiction to this Court, the plain meaning of "exclusive" necessarily denies jurisdiction of such cases to any other federal court. See, e.g., California v. Arizona, 440 U.S. 59, 63. The District Court’s adjudication of a private action involving the location of the boundary between two States does not violate § 1251(a), since that section speaks in terms of parties, not claims or issues. But the adjudication of such an action would not be binding on the States in any way. Because both of the Courts below intermixed the questions of title to real property and of the state boundary’s location, it must be determined on remand whether, on this record, the claims of title may fairly be decided without additional proceedings in the District Court. Pp. 75-79.
937 F.2d 247, reversed and remanded.
REHNQUIST, C.J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Mississippi v. Louisiana, 506 U.S. 73 (1992) in 506 U.S. 73 506 U.S. 74. Original Sources, accessed November 25, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RZTH1GE9U3XHHVS.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Mississippi v. Louisiana, 506 U.S. 73 (1992), in 506 U.S. 73, page 506 U.S. 74. Original Sources. 25 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RZTH1GE9U3XHHVS.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Mississippi v. Louisiana, 506 U.S. 73 (1992). cited in 1992, 506 U.S. 73, pp.506 U.S. 74. Original Sources, retrieved 25 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RZTH1GE9U3XHHVS.
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