Alabama v. North Carolina

Alabama v. North Carolina
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 11, 2010 Decided June 1, 2010
Full case name	State of Alabama, State of Florida, State of Tennessee, Commonwealth of Virginia, and Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Commission, Plaintiffs v. State of North Carolina
Citations	560 U.S. 330 (more) 130 S. Ct. 2295; 176 L. Ed. 2d 1070
Argument	Oral argument
Decision	Opinion
Holding
North Carolina was not prohibited from withdrawing from the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact, and the Southeast Compact Commission had no authority to levy monetary sanctions against North Carolina
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Stevens, Ginsburg, Alito; Roberts (all but Parts II–D and III–B); Kennedy, Sotomayor (all but Part II–E); Thomas (all but Part III–B); Breyer (all but Parts II–C, II–D, and II–E)
Concurrence	Kennedy (in part), joined by Sotomayor
Concur/dissent	Roberts, joined by Thomas
Concur/dissent	Breyer, joined by Roberts
Laws applied
U. S. Const., Art. III, §2, cl. 2 28 U. S. C. §1251(a) Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact

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Alabama v. North Carolina, 560 U.S. 330 (2010), was an original jurisdiction United States Supreme Court case.^[1] It arose from a disagreement between the state of North Carolina and the other members of the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact over the funding for a joint project. Eight states had formed the compact in 1983 to manage low-level radioactive waste in the southeastern United States. In 1986, North Carolina was chosen as the location for the regional waste facility, and it asked the other states for funding to help with the project. The project stalled and was eventually shut down, despite North Carolina receiving $80 million from the other states. After the project's demise, the other states demanded their money back, but North Carolina refused to repay them, leading to this case.