Legal Opinion
Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 19, 2000No. 99-474PublishedCited by 998 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
The issue is whether the Burma law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, restricting the authority of its agencies to purchase goods or services from companies doing business with Burma,1 is invalid under the Supremacy Clause of the National Constitution owing to its threat of frustrating federal statutory objectives. We hold that it is.
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In June 1996, Massachusetts adopted An Act Regulating State Contracts with Companies Doing Business with or in *367Burma (Myanmar),” 1996 Mass. Acts 239, ch. 130 (codified at Mass. Gen. Laws §§ 7:22G-7:22M, 40 Fié (1997). The statute generally bars state…
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