PENNSYLVANIA v. NEW JERSEY

No. 68, Orig.

426 U.S. 660 (1976)

PENNSYLVANIA v. NEW JERSEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 17, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Silver, Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, argued the cause for plaintiff in No. 68, Original. With him on the brief were Robert P. Kane, Attorney General, and Donald J. Murphy and Howard M. Levinson, Deputy Attorneys General. Joseph E. Brennan, Attorney General of Maine, and Benson D. Scotch, Assistant Attorney General of Vermont, argued the cause for plaintiffs in No. 69, Original. With them on the brief were Martin L. Wilk, Deputy Attorney General of Maine, and Donald G. Alexander, Assistant Attorney General, Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General of Massachusetts, and James R. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, and M. Jerome Diamond, Attorney General of Vermont.

Stephen Skillman, Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey, argued the cause for defendant in No. 68, Original. With him on the brief were William F. Hyland, Attorney General, and Herbert Glickman, Deputy Attorney General. Charles G. Cleaveland, Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire, argued the cause for defendant in No. 69, Original. With him on the brief were Warren B. Rudman, Attorney General, and Donald W. Stever, Jr., Assistant Attorney General.


PER CURIAM.

The motions for leave to file bills of complaint in these cases are denied.

The complaints, which seek to invoke our original jurisdiction, filed by Pennsylvania against New Jersey, and by Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont against New Hampshire, rely on our decision last Term in Austin v. New Hampshire, 420 U.S. 656 (1975), in which we held the New Hampshire...

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