Supreme Court· 6/3/1946

Prudential Insurance v. Benjamin

Citations

328 U.S. 408
66 S. Ct. 1142
90 L. Ed. 1342
1946 U.S. LEXIS 3068
164 A.L.R. 476
34 A.F.T.R. (P-H) 1258

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holding that the McCarran Act expressly authorizes states to regulate and tax the business of insurance, even where such regulation and taxation might burden interstate commerce
holding that the McCarran Act expressly authorizes states to regulate and tax the business of insurance, even where such regulation and taxation might burden interstate commerce
upholding discriminatory state taxation of out-of-state insurance companies as authorized by the McCarran Act
upholding discriminatory state taxation of out-of-state insurance companies as authorized by the McCarran Act
holding that this text sufficed
rejecting the argument that the McCarran-Ferguson Act, a federal law that provided in relevant part, that insurance shall be subject to the law of the States, invaded the state’s own power of taxation

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Judges: Rutledge, Black, Jackson

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