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· 8/11/2023

State v. Douty

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “absent clear and manifest direction from Congress, historic police powers of the states will generally not be superseded by the federal law.”
  • explaining that state law is pre-empted where it produces a result inconsistent with the objective of a federal statute
  • explaining that state law is pre-empted where it produces a result inconsistent with the objective of a federal statute
  • holding that if the matter is in any way regulated by the federal government, “the federal scheme prevails though it is a more modest, less pervasive regulatory plan than that of the State”
  • explaining that while Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act had evolved into a “comprehensive regulatory statute,” it contains “ample room” for supplemental state efforts
  • noting that warehouses engaged in storage of grain for interstate or foreign commerce are in federal domain and holding that Warehouse Act preempts state regulation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Parker C.

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