Legal Opinion
Kansas v. Colorado
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 11, 2001No. 105 ORIGPublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The Arkansas River rises in the mountains of Colorado just east of the Continental Divide, descends for about 280 miles to the Kansas border, then flows through that State, Oklahoma, and Arkansas and empties into the Mississippi River. On May 20, 1901, Kansas first invoked this Court’s original jurisdiction to seek a remedy for Colorado’s diversion of water from the Arkansas River. See Kansas v. Colorado, 185 U. S. 125, 126 (1902) (statement of case). In opinions written during the past century, most recently in Kansas v. Colorado, 514 U. S. 673, 675-678 (1995), we have described the history…
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