Legal Opinion

SSC Corp. v. Town of Smithtown

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided September 19, 1995No. 1417, Docket 94-9192PublishedCited by 44 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

A law professor at Harvard is said to have remarked facetiously, a generation ago, that the greatest constitutional eases had concerned the sale and distribution of milk. The story might well be apocryphal as well as hyperbolic but there is truth to the statement, evidenced by the ubiquity of milk in the Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause jurisprudence.1 Although the flood of milk cases *505has receded in recent years, it has given way to a federal docket that is just as clogged with — of all things — garbage. No fewer than six times in the past seven years has the…

2Cases cited52 opinions

  1. Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley AuthoritySupreme Court of the United States · 1936
  3. United States v. LopezSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  4. Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
  5. Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970

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3Cited by44 opinions

  1. Houlton Citizens' Coalition v. Town of HoultonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1999
  2. TRI-M GROUP, LLC v. SharpCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2011
  3. Children's Hospital & Medical Center v. BontaCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2002
  4. Huish Detergents, Inc. v. Warren County, Kentucky Monarch Environmental Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2000
  5. Four T's, Inc., Doing Business as Dollar Rent a Car of Little Rock v. Little Rock Municipal Airport CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997

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