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  2. Commerce Clause - Wikipedia

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    The significance of the Commerce Clause is described in the Supreme Court's opinion in Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005): [7] [8] The Commerce Clause emerged as the Framers' response to the central problem giving rise to the Constitution itself: the absence of any federal commerce power under the Articles of Confederation.

  3. Reeves, Inc. v. Stake - Wikipedia

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    Nothing in the purposes animating the Commerce Clause prohibits a State, in the absence of congressional action, from participating in the market and exercising the right to favor its own citizens over others.” [3] Thus, while state laws that prefer intrastate commerce to interstate commerce for economic protectionism are ordinarily invalid ...

  4. Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    State statutes that have a negative effect on interstate commerce are unconstitutional under the Dormant Commerce Clause.Justice Stewart used a balancing test.. Where the statute regulates evenhandedly to effectuate a legitimate local public interest, and its effects on interstate commerce are only incidental, it will be upheld unless the burden imposed on such commerce is clearly excessive in ...

  5. Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    Real estate attorney Adam Leitman Bailey pioneered the use of the ILSA provision to get buyers out of contracts by either causing developers to discount prices allowing purchasers to close or if purchasers could not longer afford the home they would be able to terminate the contract. [5]

  6. Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Commerce clause Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 3: Interstate Commerce Clause Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. , 359 U.S. 520 (1959), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Illinois law requiring trucks to have unique mudguards was unconstitutional under the Commerce clause .

  7. What is an alienation clause? - AOL

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    It’s the reason your mortgage lender gets paid back first from your home sale’s proceeds.

  8. Houston East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United States

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    Houston East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United States, 234 U.S. 342 (1914), also known as the Shreveport Rate Case, was a decision of the United States Supreme Court expanding the power of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States. Justice Hughes's majority opinion stated that the federal government's power to regulate ...

  9. Dormant Commerce Clause - Wikipedia

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    The Dormant Commerce Clause, or Negative Commerce Clause, in American constitutional law, is a legal doctrine that courts in the United States have inferred from the Commerce Clause in Article I of the US Constitution. [1] The primary focus of the doctrine is barring state protectionism.