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· 6/17/1994

West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy

Citations

  • 512 U.S. 186
  • 114 S. Ct. 2205
  • 129 L. Ed. 2d 157
  • 1994 U.S. LEXIS 4638
  • 94 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4525
  • 94 Daily Journal DAR 8413
  • 8 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 300
  • 62 U.S.L.W. 4518
  • 73 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 1048

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that Commerce Clause decisions require a “sensitive, case-by-case analysis of purposes and effects
  • holding that facially neutral milk tax favored in-state dairy farmers over out-of-state dairy farmers
  • holding that facially neutral milk tax favored in-state dairy farmers over out-of-state dairy farmers
  • recognizing that Commerce Clause decisions require a “sensitive, case-by-case analysis of purposes and effects
  • noting that “[t]he ‘negative’ aspect of the Commerce Clause was considered the more important by the ‘father of the Constitution,’ James Madison”
  • noting that “in the field of intergovernmental taxation ... nondiscrimination ... plays a central role in setting the boundary between the permissible and the impermissible.”

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Judges: Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist, Blackmun, Black-Mun

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