New Jersey v. City of New York

New Jersey invokes our original jurisdiction under § 2, Art. Ill 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 surface of the water, frequently have been and are being cast upon the beaches belonging to the State, its municipalities and its citizens, thereby creating a public nuisance and causing great and irreparable injury. It prays an injunction re straining the…