The Tidelands Case

The Tidelands Case
Supreme Court of the United States
Original jurisdiction Decided June 23, 1947
Full case name	United States v. California
Citations	332 U.S. 19 ( more )
Outcome
California is not the owner of the three-mile marginal belt along its coast, and the Federal Government, rather than the State, has paramount rights in and power over that belt, an incident to which is full dominion over the resources of the soil under that water area, including oil.
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black  · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter  · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy  · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge  · Harold H. Burton
Case opinion
Per curiam

United States v. California, 332 U.S. 19(1947), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that California is not the owner of the three-mile marginal belt along its coast, and the Federal Government, rather than the State, has paramount rights in and power over that belt, an incident to which is full dominion over the resources of the soil under that water area, including oil. ^{[1] [2]} The case was better known in its time as The Tidelands Case, although this was a misnomer because it did not involve tidelands. ^[2]

Opinion of the court

The Supreme Court issued an opinion on June 23, 1947. ^[1]

Later developments

On October 27, 1947, the Supreme Court entered a final decree addressing the entitlement of the United States and the State of California to lands, minerals, and other natural resources underlying the Pacific Ocean offshore of California. United States v. California, 332 U.S. 804 (1947). On January 31, 1966, the Supreme Court entered a supplemental decree redefining the federal-state boundary pursuant to the Submerged Lands Act. 382 U.S. 448 (1966). Between 1977 and 1981, the Supreme Court issued three additional supplemental decrees further delineating particular portions of the federal-state boundary. 432 U.S. 40 (1977); 439 U.S. 30 (1978); 449 U.S. 408 (1981). The Supreme Court issued another supplemental decree in 2014. ^[3]

References

1. United States v. California, 332 U.S. 19 (1947).
2. Elton M. Hyder Jr., United States v. California, 19 MISS. L.J. 265 (May 1948).
3. United States v. California, 574 U.S. 105 (2014).

External links

• Text of United States v. California , 332 U.S. 19(1947) is available from: Justia

This article incorporates written opinion of a United States federal court. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the text is in the public domain .