Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Coalition v. Kempthorne

How courts have described this case

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• upholding regulation of purely intrastate, noncommercial Alabama sturgeon as essential part of ESA’s comprehensive regulatory scheme
• considering Commerce Clause challenge to final rule listing the Alabama sturgeon as endangered under the theory that “Congress has exceeded the power granted to it under the Commerce Clause by authorizing protection of the Alabama Sturgeon”
• “Because a species’ scientific or other commercial value is not dependent on whether its habitat straddles a state line, Congress had good reason to include all species within the protection of the Act. It did not behave irrationally by taking the broader approach.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).