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| States may not issue licenses on goods transported into or out of state. Commerce is not just buying and selling, but trasnportation across state lines for comm purposes. Several states=more than1 | Gibbons v. Ogden |
| Just because an item is manufactured with intent to transport does not make it int comm. Manufacturing doesn't have direct effect on int comm | E.C. Knight |
| Congress may act pre-emptively to prevent bad practices, business done in the stockyard is an essential part of int comm, Packers and Stockyard Act upheld | Stafford v. Wallace |
| The National Industrial Recovery Act, which gives POTUS regulation of hours/wages/ages power is unconst delegation, doesn't est rules, just gives POTUS power | ALA Schecter Poultry |
| Hours, practices, ages are local issues and cannot be regulated. Just because something is made for int comm does not make its production int comm. Coal mining is production, not commerce | Carter vs. Carter Coal |
| Ability of employees to self-organize is crucial part of flow of int. commerce..Natl Labor Relations Act affirmed...Previous rulings saying labor relations not part of flow overturned | NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel |
| Production is local but Congress can regulate it if there's a substantial effect on interstate commerce | Wickard v. Filburn |
| ONly states may regulate transactions in interstate commerce, and money brought in by treasury may only be redistributed via appropriation, Ag Adj act struck down | U.S. v. Butler |
| Tax is an excise, laid with uniformity throughout U.S., doesn't illegally coerce states, proceeds appropriated normall. Social Security Act upheld | Stewardt Machine v. Davis |
| Congress may attach conditions on receipt of federal funds so long as conditions further broad policy objectives | South Carolina v. Dole |
| Racial discrimination places burden on int comm, hotels directly affect int comm (Congress can regulate local activity w/clear burden on int comm) | Heart of Atlanta Motel |
| Gun Free School Zone Act doesn't regulate commerce; only local activities w/direct affect on int comm can be regulated. Congress can regulate int comm channels, instruments/people, activities | Lopez |
| Gender-motivated crimes aren't economic activity and don't directly affect int comm; logic of Lopez used | Morrison |
| Medicinal marijuana has substantial affect on int comm; Govt can regulate anything with substantial effect on natl econ...CSA takes precedent | Gonzales v. Raich |
| Tenth Amendment places limits on power of Congress to regulate the states as states...states have power to determine wages/hours/etc (Fair Labor Standards Act overturned) | National League of Cities v. Usery |
| States have autonomy but only to the extent that the Constitution has not taken away those powers | Garcia v. San Antonio Metro Transit Authority |
| Congress can deal with some local issues but can't compel state legislatures to pursue and pass something. Power to Congress exclusively congressional; states' is states' | New York (Hunter) v. U.S. |
| Tenth Amendment prohibits states from carrying out federal commands. | Printz v. U.S. |
| Federal government has full and complete power to regulate lottery tickets (anything that has substantial effect on IC) | Champion v. Ames |
| Smith Act in PA, which has extra harsh sedition penalties, invalidated by fed law because it's not a local issue and congress occupies that field | Pennsylvania v. Nelson |
| Price ceiling for warehouse space is acceptable because any business that affects public interest | Munn v. Illinois |
| Law regulated hours/wages of bakers unconstitutional because employers/employees enjoy freedom of contract, and this is an unnecessary/arbitrary interference | Lochner |
| Oregon law imposing max hours for women is necessary because of burdens of motherhood, performance of maternal functions | Muller |
