National Pork Producers v. Ross (Dormant Commerce Clause)
Supreme Court Decision Syllabus (SCOTUS Podcast)
English - May 15, 2023 03:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MB - ★★★★ - 38 ratingsGovernment Education scotus supreme court legal law supreme court decisions supreme court opinion slip opinion scotuscast court government Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In National Pork Producers v. Ross, the Supreme Court reviewed whether California's Proposition 12 regulatory requirements relating to conditions for in-state pork sales unconstitutionally interfered with out-of-state businesses in violation of the dormant commerce clause.
From Justice Gorsuch's majority opinion: "Assuredly, under this Court’s dormant Commerce Clause decisions, no State may use its laws to discriminate purposefully against out-of-state economic interests. But the pork producers do not suggest that California’s law offends this principle. Instead, they invite us to fashion two new and more aggressive constitutional restrictions on the ability of States to regulate goods sold within their borders. We decline that invitation. While the Constitution addresses many weighty issues, the type of pork chops California merchants may sell is not on that list."
Read by guest host Ryan Barnum.