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UNITED STATES v. LOUISIANA ET AL.

No. 9, Orig.

485 U.S. 88 (1988)

UNITED STATES v. LOUISIANA ET AL. (ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI BOUNDARY CASE)

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1988

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim R. Bruce, Special Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for defendant State of Mississippi. With him on the brief was Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Attorney General.

Jeffrey P. Minear argued the cause for the United States. On the brief were Solicitor General Fried, Acting Assistant Attorney General Marzulla, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, and Donald A. Carr.*

JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.

In the Court's most recent opinion in this extended litigation, see 470 U.S. 93 (1985), Mississippi Sound was determined to be a historic bay under the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, [1964] 15 U. S. T. (pt. 2) 1607, T. I. A. S. No. 5639. The waters of that Sound, therefore, are inland waters, and Alabama and Mississippi own their respective portions of...

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