CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
W.B. Fisch, Fall 2003
Assignment #15
B. Requiring Business Operations to be Performed
in the Home State
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C. & A. CARBONE, INC. V. CLARKSTOWN, p. 312 (1994)
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what is the local regulation and what are its purposes?
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does it expressly treat in-state and out-of-state interests
differently?
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how does its classification relate to its claimed legitimate
purposes?
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who bears the cost of the regulation, and who receives its
benefits? Should such an analysis be determinative of its constitutionality?
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compare Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc., p. 311 (1970),
cited in Carbone: state requires multi-state cantaloupe grower to
package concededly superior-quality Arizona fruit in the state, rather
than at its existing packaging plant in California, where the only effect
would be to assure that the fruit is labeled as Arizona fruit;
held
unacceptable burden not justified by "tenuous" state interest in getting
credit for superior fruit
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Is Carbone distinguishable from Dean Milk (milk-pasteurization
w/n 5 miles)?
C. Preserving Resources for In-State Consumption
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CITY OF PHILADELPHIA V. NEW JERSEY, p. 322 (1978)
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what is the local regulation and what are its purposes?
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does it expressly treat in-state and out-of-state interests
differently?
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why can't the state treat the landfills as scarce natural
resources, and preserve them for the use of its own citizens?
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how does its classification relate to its legitimate purposes?
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what role does "motive" play in the court's analysis?
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MAINE V. TAYLOR, p. 332 (1986)
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What is the state regulation?
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does it facially discriminate
against out-of-state interests, in favor of local ones?
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does it have a discriminatory
purpose?
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does it have a discriminatory
effect?
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does it impose a substantial
burden on interstate commerce?
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how does this case differ from
City
of Philadelphia as an embargo against out-of-state imports?
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what alternative means might
have been used to protect the state's interests?
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Camps Newfound/Owatonna,
Inc. v. Harrison, p. 334 (1997).
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Is not-for-profit activity outside
the scope of the dormant commerce clause?
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Did the state statute facially
discriminate against out-of-state interests, in favor of
local ones? What interests?
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Did it have a non-discriminatory
purpose? A legitimate discriminatory purpose?
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Suppose the evidence showed
that none of the burden of the property tax was
passed on to the campers. Would that change the result? Why?