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Case history; Prior: On appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky: Holding; Where a river is said to be the boundary between two states, the boundary properly extended to the low water mark of the opposite shore and no higher; plaintiff's motion of ejectment based on title granted by the state of Kentucky was denied.
Georgia v. South Carolina, 497 U.S. 376 (1990), is one of a long series of U.S. Supreme Court cases determining the borders of the state of Georgia. In this case, the Court decided the exact border within the Savannah River and whether islands should be a part of Georgia or South Carolina. It also decided the seaward border. [1]
The conflicting grants led to a long-running border dispute between Maryland and Virginia. [6] The two states settled navigational and riparian water rights in a compact in 1785, but the boundary dispute continued. [7] [8] [9] Maryland entered into a separate dispute with Virginia regarding the placement of its true southern boundary in the west.
A boundary dispute in a forest in southwestern Colorado spilled over into a row over misinformation, amid claims a ‘polyamorous cult’ was squaring off with angry locals.. Earlier this week ...
Two Supreme Court cases, Wisconsin v. Michigan , 295 U.S. 455 (1935) and Wisconsin v. Michigan , 297 U.S. 547 (1936), settled a territorial dispute between Wisconsin and Michigan .
The boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey remained disputed around the Hudson River. The states convened conferences as early as 1807 to resolve the state line but did not reach agreement. [4] In 1831, New Jersey sued New York in the Supreme Court over the dispute, but dropped the case in 1836.
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Alaska boundary dispute United States Canada: 1821 1903 Disputed between the United States and Canada (then a British Dominion with its foreign affairs controlled from London). The dispute had been going on between the Russian and British Empires since 1821, and was inherited by the United States as a consequence of the Alaska Purchase in 1867 ...