United States v. Louisiana

• Decision Date: 05 November 1990
• Docket Number: O,No. 9,9
• Citation: 112 L.Ed.2d 269,498 U.S. 9,111 S.Ct. 377
• Parties: UNITED STATES of America, plaintiff v. State of LOUISIANA, et al.riginal. No. ____
• Court: U.S. Supreme Court

498 U.S. 9

111 S.Ct. 377

112 L.Ed.2d 269

UNITED STATES of America, plaintiff

v State of LOUISIANA, et al. No. 9, Original.

No. ____.

Supreme Court of the United States

November 5, 1990

ON BILL OF COMPLAINT

The Additional Supplemental Report of the Special Master, dated October 1, 1990, is received and ordered filed. The recommended Supplemental Decree is approved.

SUPPLEMENTAL DECREE

By its decision of February 26, 1985, the Court overruled the exception of the United States to the Report of its Special Master herein insofar as it challenged the Master's determination that the whole Mississippi Sound constitutes historic inland waters, and, to this extent, adopted the Master's recommendations and confirmed his Report.

On March 1, 1988, the Court resolved the disagreement between the United States and Mississippi as to that portion of the Mississippi coastline at issue in the above- captioned litigation and directed the parties to submit to the Special Master a proposed appropriate decree defining the claims of Alabama and Mississippi with respect to Mississippi Sound. The parties have agreed on and submitted to the Special Master a proposed decree in accordance with the Court's decision of March 1, 1988.

IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED as follows:

1. For the purposes of the Court's Decree herein dated December 12, 1960, 364 U.S. 502, 81 S.Ct. 258, 5 L.Ed.2d 247 (defining the boundary line-

between the submerged lands of the United States and the submerged lands of the States bordering the Gulf of Mexico), the coastline of the States of Alabama and Mississippi shall be determined on the basis that the whole of Mississippi Sound constitutes state inland waters;

2. For the purposes of said Decree of December 12, 1960, the coastline of Alabama includes a straight line from a point on the western tip of Dauphin Island where X = 238690 and Y = 84050 in the Alabama plane coordinate system, west zone, and X = 659783.79 and Y = 204674.56 in the Mississippi plane coordinate system, east zone, to a point on the eastern tip of Petit Bois Island where X = 215985 and Y = 77920 in the Alabama plane coordinate system, west zone, and X = 637152.89 and Y = 198279.25 in the Mississippi plane coordinate system, east zone, so far as said line lies on the Alabama side of the Alabama-Mississippi boundary.

3. For the purposes of said Decree of December 12, 1960, the coastline of Mississippi includes the following:

(a) That portion of the straight line described in paragraph 2, above, lying on the Mississippi side of Alabama-Mississippi boundary;

(b) The baseline delimiting Petit Bois Island determined by the following points in the Mississippi plane coordinate system, east zone:

E. COORD N. COORD.

X Y

A POINT AT 636103.06 197409.43

A POINT AT 635730.88 197167.57

A POINT AT 635197.10 196848.81

A POINT AT 634824.92 196606.95

A POINT AT 634494.81 196403.07

A LINE FROM 634116.89 196223.65

THROUGH 633487.70 195977.80

THROUGH 632600.10 195607.60

THROUGH 631541.99 195143.47

E. COORD N. COORD.

X Y

THROUGH 630508.20 194904.30

THROUGH 629479.90 194591.90

THROUGH 628525.00 194321.70

THROUGH 628401.73 194306.69

THROUGH 628036.92 194289.93

THROUGH 627476.60 194182.00

THROUGH 626488.60 193948.10

THROUGH 625932.59 193802.79

THROUGH 625516.00 193766.90

THROUGH 623861.36 193478.53

THROUGH 622820.50 193454.10

THROUGH 621823.80 193356.00

THROUGH 620825.20 193257.90

THROUGH 619847.89 193131.55

THROUGH 618538.77 193268.72

THROUGH 617735.69 193531.82

THROUGH 616497.05 194054.83

THROUGH 615577.50 194348.40

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