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Flashcard 1: What is the dormant Commerce Clause rule for a state law that discriminates against interstate commerce?

Answer: A discriminatory state law is generally invalid unless the state proves it serves a legitimate local purpose that cannot be adequately served by reasonable nondiscriminatory alternatives. Discrimination may be facial, purposeful, or discriminatory in practical effect.

Flashcard 2: What test applies to a nondiscriminatory state law that burdens interstate commerce?

Answer: Under the Pike balancing test, the law is valid unless the burden on interstate commerce is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits. Courts generally defer to legitimate local benefits when the law regulates evenhandedly.

Flashcard 3: When may a state discriminate against interstate commerce as a market participant?

Answer: A state may favor its own citizens when it is acting as a market participant, such as a buyer or seller, rather than as a market regulator. The exception does not permit discrimination in downstream markets or regulation of private parties outside the transaction.

Flashcard 4: When does field preemption generally apply?

Answer: Field preemption applies when federal regulation is so pervasive that it occupies the entire regulatory field, or when a federal interest is dominant and the state law would interfere with it. Congressional intent to occupy the field is controlling.

Flashcard 5: What is the congressional-authorization exception to dormant Commerce Clause limits?

Answer: Congress may authorize state laws that would otherwise violate the dormant Commerce Clause because Congress has power to regulate interstate commerce. The authorization must be clear enough to show that Congress intended to permit the discrimination or burden.

Flashcard 6: What is the anti-commandeering rule?

Answer: The federal government may not require states or their officials to enact, administer, or enforce a federal regulatory program. Congress may regulate private parties directly and may condition federal funds on compliance with valid conditions.

Flashcard 7: What is the Supremacy Clause rule when valid federal law conflicts with state law?

Answer: The federal law prevails, and the conflicting state law is invalid to the extent of the conflict. Federal law must be constitutionally valid to have supremacy.

Flashcard 8: What is the general rule for federal taxation of states and state taxation of the federal government?

Answer: Under intergovernmental tax immunity, the federal government and states may not directly tax each other or impose taxes that discriminate against the other sovereign. A generally applicable, nondiscriminatory tax on a government’s private-party contractors may be permissible.

Flashcard 9: What limits apply to Congress’s spending-power conditions on states?

Answer: A condition must serve the general welfare, be stated unambiguously, relate to the federal program, and not require states to violate another constitutional provision. Under the majority rule, the financial inducement also cannot be so coercive that it becomes compulsion.

Flashcard 10: What are the three forms of federal preemption?

Answer: Express preemption occurs when Congress expressly displaces state law; implied preemption may be field or conflict preemption. Conflict preemption includes impossibility and obstacle preemption.

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