Wyoming v. Colorado

Wyoming v. Colorado
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 6–8, 1916 Reargued January 9–10, 1918 Reargued January 9–10, 1922 Decided June 5, 1922
Full case name	State of Colorado v. Wyoming
Citations	259 U.S. 419 (more) 42 S. Ct. 552; 66 L. Ed. 999; 1922 U.S. LEXIS 2492
Case history
Prior	In equity.
Subsequent	Petition for rehearing granted October 9, 1922, 260 U.S. 1. Motion to dismiss denied May 31, 1932, 286 U.S. 494.
Holding
Colorado could divert a limited amount of water from an interstate stream system as long as it did not interfere with Wyoming's previously established (prior appropriation) right to the same stream system.
Court membership
Chief Justice William H. Taft Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. William R. Day · Willis Van Devanter Mahlon Pitney · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · John H. Clarke
Case opinion
Majority	Van Devanter, joined by unanimous

Wyoming v. Colorado, 259 U.S. 419 (1922) is a set of court cases, all dealing with water distribution from the Laramie River. A petition for rehearing was granted, which revised the original decision.^[1] A motion to dismiss was later denied.^[2]