United States of America v. State of Maine et al. (516 U.S. 365)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided February 26, 1996 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 516 U.S. 365 · 116 S. Ct. 872
- Decided
- February 26, 1996
- Term
- October Term 1995
- Vote
- 8–0
- Issue area
- Federalism
- Disposition
- Stay, petition, or motion granted
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
The joint motion for entry of a supplemental decree is granted. SUPPLEMENTAL DECREE The Court having, by its decision of February 25, 1986, adopted the recommendation of its Special Master that Vineyard Sound constitutes historic inland waters and overruled the exception of Massachusetts to the Report of its Special Master herein insofar as it challenged the Master’s determination that the whole of Nantucket Sound does not constitute historic or ancient inland waters, and having, to this extent, adopted the Master’s recommendations and confirmed his Report: IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED as follows: 1. For the purposes of the Court’s Decree herein dated October 6, 1975, 423 U. S. 1 (affirming the title of the United States to the seabed more than three geographic miles seaward of the coastline, and of the States to the seabed within the three geographic mile zone), the coastline of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be determined on the basis that the whole of Vineyard Sound constitutes state inland waters and Nantucket Sound (with the exception of interior indentations which are described in paragraphs 2(c), (d) and (e) below) is made up of territorial seas and high seas. 2. For purposes of said Decree of October 6, 1975, the coastline of Massachusetts includes the following straight lines: (a) A line from a point on Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard (approximately…
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