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LOUISIANA v. MISSISSIPPI

No. 86, Orig.

466 U.S. 96 (1984)

LOUISIANA v. MISSISSIPPI ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 2, 1984

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. I. Palmer, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General of Mississippi, argued the cause for defendants. With him on the brief were Bill Allain, Attorney General, William S. Boyd III, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Mitchell Emmett Ward.

David C. Kimmel, Assistant Attorney General of Louisiana, argued the cause for plaintiff. With him on the brief were William J. Guste, Attorney General, Gary L. Keyser, Assistant Attorney General, and Ernest S. Easterly III.

JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion for the Court.

This original action was filed by the State of Louisiana against the State of Mississippi and Avery B. Dille, Jr., to resolve a dispute as to the boundary between the two States in a reach of the Mississippi River above the Giles Bend Cutoff, upstream from the city of Natchez. The Report of the Special Master, however, stops short of ascertaining the entire boundary along this stretch, for the Master would have...

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