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[Jim Choate]

    § 1251. Original jurisdiction
     * (a) The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive
       jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States.
     * (b) The Supreme Court shall have original but not exclusive
       jurisdiction of:
          + (1) All actions or proceedings to which ambassadors, other
            public ministers, consuls, or vice consuls of foreign states
            are parties;
          + (2) All controversies between the United States and a State;
          + (3) All actions or proceedings by a State against the
            citizens of another State or against aliens.