Legal Opinion
State Board of Insurance v. Todd Shipyards Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1962No. 144PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
When we held in United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assn., 322 U. S. 533, that the modern business of insurance was “interstate commerce,” we put it in a category which Congress could regulate and which, if our prior decisions controlled, could not in some respects be regulated by the States, even in absence of federal regulation. See Frankfurter, The Commerce Clause (1937); Rutledge, A Declaration of Legal Faith (1947).
Congress promptly passed the McCarran-Ferguson Act, 59 Stat. 33, 15 U. S. C. § 1011, which provided that the regulation and taxation of insurance should be left to the…
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