Any state in a border dispute with another can petition directly to the high court under judicial powers defined in Article III of the Constitution, according to Joseph Zimmerman, a political-science professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and the author of several books on interstate disputes.

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Davis, the fifth recipient of the prize, is currently professor of creative writing at the University at Albany in New York state.

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According to the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York in Albany, the adjusted real increase was just over 2% in the past six months (see chart 2).

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