South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke
| South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke | |
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| Argued February 29, 1984 Decided May 22, 1984 | |
| Full case name | South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke, Commissioner, Department of Natural Resources of Alaska, et al. |
| Citations | 467 U.S. 82 (more) 104 S. Ct. 2237; 81 L. Ed. 2d 71; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 88; 52 U.S.L.W. 4631; 14 ELR 20548 |
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| Plurality | White, joined by Burger, Brennan, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens (parts I, II); Brennan, Blackmun, Stevens (parts III, IV) |
| Concurrence | Brennan |
| Concurrence | Powell, joined by Burger |
| Dissent | Rehnquist, joined by O'Connor |
| Marshall took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
South-Central Timber Development v. Wunnicke, 467 U.S. 82 (1984), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held unconstitutional Alaska's inclusion of a requirement that purchasers of state-owned timber process it within state before it was shipped out of state. According to a plurality opinion by Justice White, Alaska could not impose "downstream" conditions in the timber-processing market as a result of its ownership of the timber itself. The opinion summarized "[the] limit of the market-participant doctrine" as "[allowing a State to impose burdens on commerce within the market in which it is a participant, but [to] go no further. The State may not impose conditions [that] have a substantial regulatory effect outside of that particular market."[1]
References
- ^ Briefs, Casenote Legal (2008), Casenote legal briefs: keyed to courses utilizing Gunther and Sullivan's constitutional law, sixteenth edition. Constitutional law (4 ed.), Aspen Publishers Online, p. 45, ISBN 978-0-7355-7172-3