Maine v. Taylor

Maine v. Taylor
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 24, 1986 Decided June 23, 1986
Full case name	Maine v. Taylor et al.
Citations	477 U.S. 131 (more) 106 S. Ct. 2440; 91 L. Ed. 2d 110; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 111
Prior history	In City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey, the court 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.
Holding
States may prohibit the importation of out-of-state goods moving within the flow of commerce only if the prohibition serves a legitimate local concern and there are no other means of protecting that interest.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Brennan, White, Marshall, Powell, Rehnquist, O'Connor
Dissent	Stevens
Laws applied
Dormant Commerce Clause

Maine v. Taylor, 477 U.S. 131 (1986),^[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that there was an exception to the "virtually per se invalidity" rule 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 couldn't be certain that imported fish would be free of "parasites and non-native 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.

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 477
• List of United States Supreme Court cases
• Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume
• List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court

External links

• ^ 477 U.S. 131 Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.
• Summary of case from OYEZ