{"identifier":"/us/usc/t28/s1251","title":28,"num":"\u00a7\u202f1251.","heading":"Original jurisdiction","text":"\u00a7\u202f1251.\nOriginal jurisdiction\n(a) The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States.\n(b) The Supreme Court shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction of:\n(1) All actions or proceedings to which ambassadors, other public ministers, consuls, or vice consuls of foreign states are parties;\n(2) All controversies between the United States and a State;\n(3) All actions or proceedings by a State against the citizens of another State or against aliens.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t28/s1251.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t28/s1251","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f1251."},{"t":"heading","text":"Original jurisdiction"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t28/s1251/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t28/s1251/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" The Supreme Court shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction of:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t28/s1251/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" All actions or proceedings to which ambassadors, other public ministers, consuls, or vice consuls of foreign states are parties;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t28/s1251/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" All controversies between the United States and a State;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t28/s1251/b/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" All actions or proceedings by a State against the citizens of another State or against aliens.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}