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Supreme Court· 6/17/1976

Pennsylvania v. New Jersey

Citations

  • 426 U.S. 660
  • 96 S. Ct. 2333
  • 49 L. Ed. 2d 124
  • 1976 U.S. LEXIS 68

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • injuries to plaintiff states’ fiscs were “self-inflicted,” and “[n]o State can be heard to complain about damage inflicted by its own hand”
  • “No State can be heard to 17 complain about damage inflicted by its own hand.”
  • injuries to plaintiff- states were “self-inflicted” so they could not bring an original-jurisdiction suit in the Supreme Court
  • the Fourteenth Amendment’s privileges and immunities clause protects people, not states
  • “[the Equal Protection Clause] protects] people, not States”

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Judges: Pee, Blackmun, Brennan, White, Powell, Stevens

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