Lee v. New Jersey

Citations

• 207 U.S. 67
• 28 S. Ct. 22
• 52 L. Ed. 106
• 1907 U.S. LEXIS 1201

Syllabus

<p>A State has power to regulate the oyster industry although .carried on under tidal waters in the State.-</p> <p>Although a state statute may be unconstitutional as against a class to which the party complaining does not belong, that fact does not. authorize the reversal of a judgment not enforcing the statute so as to deprive that . party of any right protected by the Federal Constitution. • '</p> <p>Where it appears that a conviction under the New Jersey statute for the ' protection of-the oyster industry depended both in the charge and in. the testimony upon the actual illegal use of oyster dredges, and the ' possible construction of the statute which made it a crime to merely navigate interstate waters was not essential to the case, no valid constitutional objection can be raised for want of power to pass or enforce the statute.</p>