Case ID: us_403/html/0950-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 9,
    Orig.
    United States v. Louisiana et al. (Louisiana Boundary Case).
   Joint motion of the

United’ States and the State of Florida to initiate supplemental proceedings granted. Motions of the United States and the State of Florida to consolidate proceedings [see No. 35, Origij-swpraj and to appoint Special Master granted. .

It Is Ordered that the Honorable Albert B. Maris, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, be, and he is hereby, appointed Special Master to conduct supplemental proceedings which shall be docketed as case No. 52, Orig. The Special Master shall have authority to fix the time and conditions for filing additional pleadings and to direct subsequent proceedings, and 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 subihit such reports as he may deem appropriate.

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

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the Court, The Chief Justice shall have authority to .make a new designation which shall have the, same effect as if originally made by the Court herein.

Mr. Justice Marshall took no part in the consideration or decision of these matters.

[For earlier orders herein, she, e. g., 395 U. S. 901.]