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Lassen, Commissioner, State Land Department v. Arizona ex rel. Arizona Highway Department, 1966 — 384 U.S. 926 · caselaw · US
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Lassen, Commissioner, State Land Department v. Arizona ex rel. Arizona Highway Department
384 U.S. 926·Supreme Court of the United States·1966
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No. 1109.
Lassen, Commissioner, State Land Department v. Arizona ex rel. Arizona Highway Department.
Darrell F. Smith, Attorney General of Arizona, by Dale R. Shum-way, John P. Frank and Dix W. Price, Special Assistant Attorneys General, for petitioner. Darrell F. Smith, Attorney General of Arizona, by John T. Amey, Assistant Attorney General, and J. A. Riggins, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, for respondent. Briefs of amici curiae, in support of the petition, were filed by Boston E. Witt, Attorney General of New Mexico, Helgi Johanneson, Attorney General of North Dakota, Frank Farrar, Attorney General of South Dakota, John F. Raper, Attorney General of Wyoming, Forrest H. Anderson, Attorney General of Montana, Clarence A. H. Meyer, Attorney General of Nebraska, Charles Nesbitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma, and Phil L. Hansen, Attorney General of Utah, for the State of New Mexico et al.; and by John J. O’Connell, Attorney General of Washington, and Harold T. Hartin-ger, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Washington.
[MAJORITY]
Sup. Ct. Ariz. Certiorari granted.