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Florida claimed that the state line was a straight line (called McNeil's line, for the man who surveyed it for the U.S. government in 1825) from the confluence of Georgia's Chattahoochee and Flint rivers (forming the Apalachicola River, at a point now under Lake Seminole), then very slightly south of due east to the source of the St. Mary's River, which was the point specified in Pinckney's ...
The U.S. states of Florida and Georgia have been parties to several original jurisdiction suits before the United States Supreme Court, captioned Florida v. Georgia. Florida v. Georgia, dealing with the border between Florida and Georgia; Florida v. Georgia, dealing with water appropriation rights; Florida v.
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The court ruled in favor of Florida, setting the state boundary line along "McNeil's line." [1] This outcome was followed in 1859 by the surveying of the Orr and Whitner line. [2] On April 9, 1872, Congress approved the Orr and Whitner Line as part of the border between Georgia and Florida. [3]
Florida v. Georgia, 585 U.S. ___ (2018), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in an original jurisdiction case. It involves a long-running dispute over waters within the ACF River Basin, running from the north Georgia mountains through metro Atlanta to the Florida panhandle, which is managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Not every famous estate fight is over money, though. One notorious battle that made headlines around the world was over what should happen to the body, particularly the head, of famous baseball ...
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