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Douglas Vs. Seacoast Products, Inc.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 23, 1977

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  11. Douglas v. Seacoast
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  12. Products, Inc. - 431 U.S. 265 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court Douglas v. Seacoast
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  13. Products, Inc., 431 U.S. 265 (1977) Douglas v. Seacoast
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  14. federally licensed, from fishing for menhaden in Virginia's waters. Pp. 431 U. S. 271 -287. (a) Gibbons v. Ogden
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  15. II Seacoast advances a number of theories to support affirmance of the judgment below. See Fusari v. Steinberg
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  16. of our practice of deciding statutory claims first to avoid unnecessary constitutional adjudications. See Hagans v. Lavine
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  17. The well known principles of preemption have been rehearsed only recently in our decisions. See, e.g., Jones v. Rath
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  18. Jones v. Rath
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  19. that was the clear and manifest purpose of Congress.' Rice v. Santa
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  20. Anderson v. Pacific
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  21. have, Page 431 U. S. 275 however, is the historic decision of Mr. Chief Justice John Marshall in Gibbons v. Ogden
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  22. conservation and environmental protection measures otherwise within their police power. For example, in Smith v. Maryland
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  23. validity of a statute discriminating against nonresidents. Ibid. To the same effect is the holding in Manchester v. Massachusetts
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  24. Id. at 139 U. S. 265 . More recently, the same principle was applied in Huron Portland Cement Co. v. Detroit
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  25. that Congress has ratified the statutory interpretation of Gibbons and its progeny. See Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody
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  26. Francis v. Southern
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  27. See Harman v. Chicago
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  28. today that such power Page 431 U. S. 282 exists where there is some effect on interstate commerce. Perez v. United
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  29. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United
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  30. to processing plants, is certainly activity which Congress could conclude affects interstate commerce. Cf. Toomer v. Witsell
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  31. Florida Lime & Avocado Growers v. Paul
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  32. a). But when Congress made this grant pursuant to the Property Clause of the Constitution, see Alabama v. Texas
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  39. by the state courts as applied to individual resident aliens. That result is certainly plausible. See Takahashi v. Fish
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  40. McCready v. Virginia
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  41. Alaska v. Arctic
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  42. alone, may well be less than the preemptive reach of statutes passed by Congress pursuant to the power . Cf. Wickard v. Filburn
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  43. New Deal legislative program, broadly construed its powers under the Commerce Clause at this time. See, e.g., Wickard v. Filburn
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  44. size restriction. Furthermore, the cases upon which appellant relies are factually distinguishable. In McCready v. Virginia
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  45. and Geer v. Connecticut
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  46. neither petitioner asserted a claim under a preemptive Act of Congress. Smith v. Maryland
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  47. How. 71 (1855), Manchester v. Massachusetts
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  48. U.S. Supreme Court Douglas v. Seacoast
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  49. See Fusari v. Steinberg
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  50. See Hagans v. Lavine
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