Perspective
Feb. 5, 2010
Water Dispute Generates Passionate Response
Roderick Walston of Best Best & Krieger examines the Supreme Court's 5-4 split in South Carolina v. North Carolina, which was not the usual line up of justices.
By Roderick Walston
In a vigorous exchange of majority and dissenting opinions, the Supreme Court recently expanded the rights of private parties to participate in original proceedings before the Court. The Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision on January 20, held in South Carolina v. North Carolina that private parties may sometimes intervene in interstate water disputes brought directly in the Supreme Court, rejecting the dissenting view that private parties can never ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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