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Origins of the Federal Court System

Jurisdiction

What is an example of the Court’s original jurisdiction?

The U.S. Supreme Court exercised its original jurisdiction to settle a border dispute between the states of Virginia and Tennessee in Virginia v. Tennessee (1893).

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