Raymond Motor Transportation Company v. Rice 434 U.S. 429 (1978)

AuthorDavid Gordon
Pages2124

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Continuing a line of decisions begun in SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY V. ARIZONA (1945), an 8?0 Supreme Court struck down a state highway regulation as an unconstitutional burden on INTERSTATE COMMERCE. A Wisconsin statute barred trucks over fifty-five feet in length from state highways as a safety measure. Two trucking companies challenged the law under the COMMERCE CLAUSE. A strong demonstration that the law made, at best, a negligible contribution to highway safety combined with the state's failure to provide an adequate defense of the measure led the Court to override the strong presumption usually given such laws.

In Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. of Delaware (1981), Iowa made a...

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