The handful of cases in which it is used each year usually involve boundary disputes between states, as in the "Ellis Island case," New Jersey v. New York.
In Illinois v. City of Milwaukee, the Supreme Court held that the exercise of this privilege is not mandatory. The handful of cases in which it is used each year usually involve boundary disputes between states, as in the "Ellis Island case," New Jersey v. New York. It was granted in "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party" in Article III of the Constitution. For ten points, name this type of Supreme Court purview which does not require an appeal from a lower court.
In Illinois v. City of Milwaukee, the Supreme Court held that the exercise of this privilege is not mandatory.
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