Automobile Trade Ass'n v. Insurance Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• noting that rejection of a bill is a “rather weak reed upon which to lean in ascertaining legislative intent.”
• Insurance Commissioner was authorized to adopt rules and regulations “appropriate and necessary” to implement the provisions of the Credit Life and Credit Health Insurance subtitle of the Insurance Code
• ‘‘[T]he fact that a bill on a specific subject fails of passage in the General Assembly is a rather weak reed upon which to lean in ascertaining legislative intent.”
• “[T]he fact that a bill on a specific subject fails of passage in the General Assembly is a rather weak reed upon which to lean in ascertaining legislative intent.”
• “[P]ublic purpose of assuring the solvency and financial well-being of credit life insurance companies operating within the State of Maryland” is “discernible public purpose ... within reach of the State’s police powers.”
• “[ T] he fact that a bill on a specific subject fails of passage in the General Assembly is a rather weak reed upon which to lean in ascertaining legislative intent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).