state as party
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 3 U.S. 411 - Fowler v. Lindsey · 1799Most cited · 1 citing opinions
a case which belongs to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, on account of the interest that a state has in the controversy, must be a case, in which a State is either nominally, or substantially, the party. It is not sufficient, that a State may be consequentially affected.
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