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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.
Handly's Lessee v. Anthony, 18 U.S. (5 Wheat.) 374 (1820), was a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the proper boundary between the states of Indiana and Kentucky was the low-water mark on the western and northwestern bank of the Ohio River.
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. Georgia, dealing with the decision ...
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 Georgia Supreme Court has rejected one argument against the state's current abortion law, which bans most abortions after six weeks. The decision returns the case to the Superior Court of ...
A spokesperson for the state Supreme Court declined to provide an on-the-record response. Our fact-check sources Supreme Court of Georgia (archive), Dec. 3, Docket Search
In a unanimous decision, the Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Georgia Republican Party to reinstate seven last-minute rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board ahead of ...
On the basis of Coker, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Florida capital child rape statutes were unconstitutional in the Robert L. Buford case of 1981 [22] [23] and the Lucious L. Andrews case in 1983. [24] Before his sentence was overturned, Andrews was the last man on death row who had not murdered anyone. [25]