Arizona v. New Mexico

Arizona v. New Mexico
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 24, 1976
Full case name	Arizona v. New Mexico
Citations	425 U.S. 794 (more) 96 S. Ct. 1845; 48 L. Ed. 2d 376; 1976 U.S. LEXIS 117
Case history
Subsequent	Law upheld in state court sub nom.Arizona Public Service Co. v. O'Chesky, 91 N.M. 485, 576 P.2d 291 (1978); reversed sub nom Arizona Public Service Co. v. Snead, 441 U.S. 141 (1979)
Holding
Motion denied as an action involving the same constitutional issues had been filed in state court which provided an appropriate forum to litigate the issues.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Per curiam
Concurrence	Stevens
Laws applied
U.S. Const., Article 3, Section 2

Arizona v. New Mexico, 425 U.S. 794 (1976), is an opinion from the United States Supreme Court which denied a motion from the State of Arizona seeking authorization to file suit against the State of New Mexico by invoking the original jurisdiction of the court.^[1]