Prudential Insurance v. Benjamin

How courts have described this case

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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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).