Originally written by the late Boris Bittker of Yale Law School (in response to the 1995 US Supreme Court's landmark ruling in United States v. Lopez) in order to examine the scope and full range of judicial interpretation of the US Commerce Clause, this text has been reworked by Denning (Sanford U. Cumberland School of Law) in order to incorporate developments in the law of the Commerce Clause--and the related constitutional provisions found in the Import-Export Clause, the Tonnage Clause, the Federal Export Clause, and the Port Preference Clause--since the first edition's publication. Prominently, the revision includes analysis of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. In which the court rules that Congress could not mandate the purchase of insurance coverage under the commerce power; updated discussion of the Pike balancing test doctrine; a reorganized chapter on restrictions on state regulatory chapters that includes new material on lower court treatments of discriminatory laws and on topics commonly litigated under the dormant Commerce clause; new treatment of laws alleged to have impermissible extraterritorial effects; and updated case law on state economic protectionism in the regulation of liquor. Annotation 2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
