Flagler Ex Rel. Estate of Eato v. Budget Rent a Car System, Inc.

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• holding the Graves Amendment to be constitutional under the second and third Lopez categories
• finding the second category under Lopez satisfied because “Congress could reasonably conclude that shielding rental-car companies from vicarious liability under state tort law would enhance the industry’s availability to provide the means for moving people and goods in interstate commerce”
• “There is no question but that the Graves Amendment preempts state laws that impose vicarious liability on businesses that rent or lease motor vehicles”
• “The means that Congress uses, however, is irrelevant as long as its goal is to protect interstate commerce.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).