Bob Roberts, D/B/A Bob Roberts Trucking v. Leonard W. Levine, Commissioner of Transportation of the State of Minnesota

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing Atlantic Coast Line on the basis that it was a two-shipper case, in which the initial shipper had no involvement with determining the commodity’s ultimate destination
• ‘‘[t]he creation of an article of commerce, as distinct from the packaging, bailing and the like of an existing one, will generally be a terminus of transportation’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• where defendant controlled the purchase, shipment and sale of the goods, although the goods were not intended for shipment to a specific customer at the time of shipping, defendant evidenced a “fixed and persisting intent” to transport the goods in interstate commerce

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).