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· 5/23/1994

Associated Industries of Mo. v. Lohman

Citations

  • 511 U.S. 641
  • 114 S. Ct. 1815
  • 128 L. Ed. 2d 639
  • 1994 U.S. LEXIS 3774
  • 94 Daily Journal DAR 6829
  • 62 U.S.L.W. 4391
  • 8 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 138
  • 94 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 3627

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that, although a prior case applied a more lenient equal protection analysis to a Commerce Clause challenge, it had been “bypassed by later decisions”
  • holding that, although a prior case applied a more lenient equal protection analysis to a Commerce Clause challenge, it had been \bypassed by later decisions\
  • holding that a state may not, however, “grant its political subdivisions a power to discriminate against interstate commerce that the state lacked in the first instance”
  • noting that the Justices “have never deemed a hypothetical possibility of favoritism to constitute discrimination that transgresses constitutional commands”
  • noting that the Supreme Court has “never deemed a hypothetical possibility of favoritism to constitute discrimination that transgresses constitutional commands”
  • noting that “actual discrimination, wherever it is found, is impermissible, and the magnitude and scope of the discrimination have no bearing on the determinative question whether discrimination has occurred”

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Judges: Thomas, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Blackmun

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