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Article: Ellis Island, symbol of liberty, caught in struggle between New York, New Jersey.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- July 10, 1996
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Ellis Island seems like just a tiny dot in the water in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan, but it's an important piece of land in an escalating border war between New Jersey and New York.
The question is which state has jurisdiction over a big chunk of this national symbol of American immigration, where millions awaited word on whether they would be allowed into the United States when the island was this country's main entry point from 1892 to 1954.
This week, the battle shifts to a courtroom for a trial before Paul R. Verkuil, a lawyer and former law school dean and college president who was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court as the special ...
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