Legal Opinion
United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assn.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 5, 1944No. 354PublishedCited by 854 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
For seventy-five years this Court has held, whenever the question has been presented, that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution does not deprive the individual states of power to regulate and tax specific activities of foreign insurance companies which sell policies within their territories. Each state has been held to have this power even though negotiation and execution of the companies’ policy contracts involved communications of information and movements of persons, moneys, and papers across state lines. Not one of all these cases, however, has involved an Act of Congress which…
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