New Jersey can unilaterally withdraw from the Waterfront Commission Compact—created decades ago to fight corruption and crime in the NY-NJ port—without the consent of New York, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

“We hold that New Jersey may unilaterally withdraw from the Waterfront Commission Compact notwithstanding New York’s opposition,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the unanimous decision.

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