UNITED STATES V. LOUISIANA

Decision Date31 May 1960
Citation364 U. S. 502
CourtU.S. Supreme Court
Syllabus

This Court having stated its conclusions in its opinions announced on May 31, 1960, as to the respective rights of the United States and the States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, under the Submerged Lands Act, in the lands, minerals and other natural resources underlying the waters of the Gulf of Mexico off the coasts of such States, and having considered the positions of the respective parties as to the terms of a decree, now enters its final decree in the case.

Opinions reported: 363 U.S. 363 U. S. 1, 363 U. S. 121.

FINAL DECREE

This cause having come on to be heard on the motion of the plaintiff for judgment and to dismiss the cross-bill of the State of Alabama, and having been argued by counsel, and this Court having stated its conclusions in its opinions announced on May 31, 1960, 363 U.S. 363 U. S. 1, 363 U. S. 121, and having considered the positions of the respective parties as to the terms of this decree, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows:

1. As against the respective defendant States, the United States is entitled to all the lands, minerals and other natural resources underlying the Gulf of Mexico more than three geographic miles seaward from the coast lines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and more than three leagues seaward from the coast lines of Texas and Florida, and extending seaward to the edge of the Continental Shelf. None of the States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida is entitled to any interest in such lands, minerals or resources, and each of said States, their privies, assigns, lessees and other persons claiming under any of them are hereby enjoined from

Page 364 U. S. 503

interfering with the rights of the United States in such lands, minerals and resources. As used in this decree, the term "coast line" means the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters.

2. As against the United States, the defendant States are respectively entitled to all the lands, minerals and other natural resources underlying the Gulf of Mexico, extending seaward from their coast lines for a distance of three leagues in the case of Texas and Florida and three geographic miles in the case of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and the United States is not entitled, as...

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