Maine v. Taylor

Maine v. Taylor, 477 U.S. 131 (1986), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that there was an exception to the "virtually per se rule of invalidity" of the dormant commerce clause . The Supreme Court of the United States found that a Maine law prohibiting the importation of out-of-state bait fish was constitutional because Maine authorities could not be certain that imported fish would be free of "parasites and nonnative species " that might pose environmental harm to local ecology . Discriminatory laws may be upheld only if they serve "legitimate local purposes that could not adequately be served by available nondiscriminatory alternatives," wrote Justice Blackmun , author of the majority opinion. In _City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey _, the Court had previously ruled that New Jersey's ban of out-of-state solid waste was facially discriminatory to the state's residents in a national market and was therefore overturned.

See also

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• _Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Company of Texas v. Clay May _: 1904 case on invasive species

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 477

References

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1. ↑ Maine v. Taylor, 477 U.S. 131 (1986).
2. ↑ _City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey _, 437 U.S. 617 (1978).

External links

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• Text of Maine v. Taylor, 477 U.S. 131 (1986) is available from: CourtListener Findlaw Google Scholar Internet Archive (docket files) Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)

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