Mississippi v. Louisiana

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• affirming that the district court lacked jurisdiction where the statute provided without geographic qualification that “the Court of International Trade shall have exclusive jurisdiction”
• explaining that “[t]he States, of course, are not bound by any decision as to the boundary between them which was rendered in a lawsuit between private litigants” (citing Durfee v. Duke, 375 U.S. 106, 115 (1963)
• “Louisiana’s intervention is also unaffected by § 1251(a) because it does not seek relief against Mississippi.”
• “ ‘The model case for invocation of this Court’s original jurisdiction is a dispute between States of such seriousness that it would amount to casus belli if the States were fully sovereign,’ ” quoting Texas v. New Mexico, 462 U. S. 554, 571, n. 18 (1983)

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