Template:Did you know nominations/Alabama v. North Carolina

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The result was: promoted by Vincent^LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 14:27, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Alabama v. North Carolina

• ... that the 2010
  United States Supreme Court original jurisdiction case Alabama v. North Carolina came about after four states paid North Carolina $80 million for a failed waste management facility....and wanted their money back? Source: SCOTUSblog
  • ALT1: ... that the 2010
    US Supreme Court original jurisdiction case Alabama v. North Carolina came after four states paid North Carolina $80 million for a failed waste
    facility – and wanted their money back?

Moved to mainspace by DannyS712 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:20, 22 November 2018 (UTC).

• The hook is well over 225 characters. Yoninah (talk) 23:24, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

@Yoninah: I have included another option, than is under 200 characters --DannyS712 (talk) 00:38, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• sea of blue links
  and is also pretty technical for a general audience. I notice on the talk page that you have the option:
• ALT1a: ... that the 2010
  US Supreme Court case Alabama v. North Carolina came about after four states paid North Carolina $80 million for a failed waste
  facility – and wanted their money back?
• Alternately, you could pipe the bolded link to limit repeated words, like:
• ALT2: ... that in 2010, the
  US Supreme Court heard an original jurisdiction case in which four states sued North Carolina for refusing to return the money they had invested in a failed waste
  facility?
• The fact about paying $80 million needs an
  inline cite. No QPQ necessary for nominator with less than 5 DYK credits. Yoninah (talk
  ) 23:01, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Yoninah: Lets go with ALT2, since the fact that it is an "original jurisdiction" case is special (there are very few of these). For the citation, the footnote is included at the end of the paragraph. That source reports that "In 1988, North Carolina asked the Commission for assistance with the costs of licensing and building a facility. The Commission adopted a resolution declaring it “appropriate and necessary” to provide financial assistance, and ultimately paid almost $80 million to North Carolina from 1988 through 1997. North Carolina also expended $34 million of its own funds. Yet by the mid 1990s, North Carolina was still many years—and many tens of millions of dollars—away from obtaining a license." I have underlined the relevant sentence. --DannyS712 (talk) 23:26, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, but add the inline cite to the end of the sentence in which the $80 million figure appears. Yoninah (talk) 23:36, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• Also, if this kind of case is so rare, why not add a mention of it to the Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States article? Yoninah (talk) 23:38, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Yoninah:  Done with respect to adding the inline cite. However, when I said that these cases are rare, I meant that they are relatively rare, since only ~1 is heard every year. The article you linked to doesn't contain a list of cases. --DannyS712 (talk) 23:42, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• @DannyS712: you could add it to the prose under the "Cases" section. Yoninah (talk) 23:43, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Yoninah: There are 39 cases in Category:United States Supreme Court original jurisdiction cases. Not all can be listed --DannyS712 (talk) 23:45, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• No problem. But when I write an article, I try to link it in as many other articles as I can.
• ALT2 hook refs verified and cited inline. Since my wording is just a tweak from the nominator's original suggestions, I'm going ahead and approving this. ALT2 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 23:48, 12 December 2018 (UTC)