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NEW JERSEY v. NEW YORK CITY

No. 17, original.

283 U.S. 473 (1931)

NEW JERSEY v. CITY OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Duane E. Minard, Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey, with whom Mr. William A. Stevens, Attorney General, was on the brief, for plaintiff.

Mr. Arthur J.W. Hilly, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, with whom Messrs. Elliot S. Benedict, J. Joseph Lilly, and Thomas W.A. Crowe were on the brief, for defendant.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

New Jersey invokes our original jurisdiction under § 2, Art. III of the Constitution.

The complaint alleges that the City of New York for many years has dumped and still is dumping noxious, offensive and injurious materials — all of which are for brevity called garbage — into the ocean; that great quantities of the same, moving on or near the...

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