Northern Illinois Chapter of Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc. v. Lavin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that in Boston Harbor, “Boston wanted to clean up its harbor, but there can be little doubt that it also wanted to shower benefits on workers who were the incumbents’ political supporters”
• noting that in Boston Harbor, “Boston wanted to clean up its harbor, but there can be little doubt that it also wanted to shower benefits on workers who were the incumbents’ political supporters”
• “Federal preemption doctrine evaluates what legislation does, not why legislators voted for it or what political coalition led to its enactment.”
• “Because Illinois has limited its condition to the project financed by the subsidy, it has not engaged in ‘regulation’ ***.”
• “The question ‘is a condition on the receipt of a grant a form of regulation?’ comes up frequently, and the answer almost always is negative.”
• “Federal preemption doctrine evaluates what legislation does, not why legislators voted for it or what political coalition led to its enactment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).