Kansas v. Colorado

Kansas v. Colorado
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued
Full case name	State of Kansas v. State of Colorado
Citations	185 U.S. 125 (1902); 206 U.S. 46 (1907); 320 U.S. 383 (1943); 514 U.S. 673 (1995); 533 U.S. 1 (2001); 543 U.S. 86 (2004); 556 U.S. 98 (2009)
Prior history	Original Jurisdiction
Argument	Oral argument
Holding
Colorado has been using too much of the Arkansas River and so must pay interest on the judgment going back more than 20 years. Kansas gets money relief but not water.
Court membership
(1902) Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · Horace Gray David J. Brewer · Henry B. Brown George Shiras Jr. · Edward D. White Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna (1907) Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · David J. Brewer Edward D. White · Rufus W. Peckham Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. William R. Day · William H. Moody (1943) Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Owen Roberts · Hugo Black Stanley F. Reed · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Frank Murphy Robert H. Jackson · Wiley B. Rutledge (1995, 2001, 2004) Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer (2009) Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito

Kansas v. Colorado is a longstanding litigation before the Supreme Court of the United States between US states: Kansas and Colorado regarding the payment for the use of the Arkansas River. The Court has rendered numerous opinions on the case:

• Kansas v. Colorado, 185 U.S. 125 (1902)
• Kansas v. Colorado, 206 U.S. 46 (1907)
• Colorado v. Kansas, 320 U.S. 383 (1943)
• Kansas v. Colorado, 514 U.S. 673 (1995)
• Kansas v. Colorado, 533 U.S. 1 (2001)
• Kansas v. Colorado, 543 U.S. 86 (2004)
• Kansas v. Colorado, 556 U.S. 98 (2009)

When two states have a controversy between each other, the case is filed for original jurisdiction with the US Supreme Court. It is one of the very limited circumstances in which the court acts with original jurisdiction, as a trial court. In all other cases the court acts as the highest appellate court of the United States.