NEBRASKA
v.
IOWA

U.S. | 1968-06-17
No. 17
392 U.S. 918 Supreme Court of the United States (1968)

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Nebraska v. Iowa involved a boundary or water rights dispute between two states that required the appointment of a Special Master to conduct proceedings and gather evidence. The Supreme Court appointed Judge Charles J. Vogel as Special Master to replace the resigned judge, with authority to direct pleadings, summon witnesses, and take evidence, with costs to be shared among the parties as the Court would later direct.


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Opinion of the Court

It Is Ordered that the Honorable Charles J. Vogel, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, be, and he is hereby, appointed Special Master in this case in the place of the Honorable Walter L. Pope, resigned. The Special Master shall have the authority to fix the time and conditions for the filing of additional pleadings and to direct subsequent proceedings, and with authority to summon witnesses, issue subpoenas, and take such evidence as may be introduced and such as he may ‘deem it necessary to call for. The Master is directed to submit such reports as he may deem appropriate.

The Master shall be allowed his actual expenses. The allowances to him, the compensation paid to his technical, stenographic, and clerical assistants, the cost of printing his report, and all other proper expenses shall be charged against and be borne by the parties in such proportion as the Court hereafter may direct.

It Is Further Ordered that if the position of Special Master in this case becomes vacant during a recess of the Court, The Chief Justice shall have authority to make a new designation which shall have the same effect as if originally made by the Court herein.

[For earlier orders herein, see, e. g., 380 U. S. 968.]


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