The Tidelands Case

The Tidelands Case
Supreme Court of the United States
Original jurisdiction
Decided June 23, 1947
Full case nameUnited States v. California
Citations332 U.S. 19 (more)
Outcome
California is not the owner of the three-mile marginal belt along its coast, and the Federal Government, rather than the State, has paramount rights in and power over that belt, an incident to which is full dominion over the resources of the soil under that water area, including oil.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Fred M. Vinson
Associate Justices
Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson
Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinion
Per curiam

United States v. California, 332 U.S. 19 (1947), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that California is not the owner of the three-mile marginal belt along its coast, and the Federal Government, rather than the State, has paramount rights in and power over that belt, an incident to which is full dominion over the resources of the soil under that water area, including oil. The case was better known in its time as The Tidelands Case, although this was a misnomer because it did not involve tidelands.

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