Episode 269: Arizona v. California
AZ: The History of Arizona podcast

Episode 269: Arizona v. California

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 7, 202630 min

It took 11 years, $5 million and hundreds of experts and witnesses, but in 1963, Arizona finally managed a major court win against its sworn enemy - at least when it came to water - to the west.

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Because I believe it's healthy for all of us to read the U.S. Constitution from time to time, I want to recite for you a bit from Article III, Section 2, Clause 1. It reads that the Court's judicial power shall extend quote, to controversies between two or more states."

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Basically when two or more states get into it, they can bring their dispute to the US Supreme Court to rule on the matter. Maybe not all that surprising, a lot of times the court has asked to rule on something that sounds almost mundane, disputes about where the border between two states lies.

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If you ever want to fall down a fun little Wikipedia rabbit hole, look up its list of boundary cases of the United States Supreme Court. And before you think that this is all ancient history, though if you think that maybe this isn't the podcast for you, the court made a ruling as recently as 1998 about a dispute over who actually controlled a

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