In Re Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. v. the State of Texas

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• holding that Georgia was entitled to sue to enjoin fumes from a copper plant across the state border from injuring land in five Georgia counties
• holding that Georgia was entitled to sue to enjoin fumes from a copper plant across the state border from injuring land in five Georgia counties
• holding that Georgia had standing to sue an out-of-state polluter to defend an independent quasi-sovereign interest “in all the earth and air within its domain.”
• noting that the state has an interest not only in its own rights but, as g%asi-sovereign, in the property rights of its citizens
• noting that the state has an interest not only in its own rights but, as quasi-sovereign, in the property rights of its citizens
• finding that Georgia has standing to bring injunctive action against out-of-state corporation because it “has an interest independent of and behind the titles of its citizens, in all the earth and air within its domain”

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