Commerce Clause. This Case Activity gives you another opportunity to analyze the Commerce Clause as it applies to interstate commerce. Please focus on the court’s reasoning near the end of the case on “Relation to State Services. Please answer two questions:
1. Do you agree that this criterion is an appropriate test in considering the Commerce Clause?
properly in this case?
Regency Transportation, Inc., operates a freight business
throughout the eastern United States. Regency maintains its corporate
headquarters, four warehouses, and a maintenance facility and terminal location
for repairing and storing vehicle in Massachusetts. All of the vehicles in
Regency’s fleet were bought in other states.
Massachusetts imposes a use tax on
all tax payers subject to its jurisdiction, including those that do business in
interstate commerce, as Regency does. When Massachusetts imposed the tax on the
purchase price of each tractor and trailer in Regency’s fleet, the trucking
firm challenged the assessment as discriminatory under the commerce clause.
What is the chief consideration under the commerce clause when a state law
affects interstate commerce?
