Grubhub drivers who contend they have been wrongly classified as independent contractors rather than employees must submit their claims to arbitration because they are not actively engaged in interstate commerce, the Seventh Circuit ruled.
Read moreA federal court in Kentucky granted a preliminary injunction to the Online Merchant’s Guild to halt investigations into alleged price-gouging by Amazon retailers. The state attorney general’s investigations and threats of enforcement have an “impermissible extraterritorial effect on interstate commerce.”
Read moreExtending Hustler founder Larry Flynt’s fight against a longstanding California organized crime rule, a federal judge on Monday allowed a deeper look at a law barring cardroom operators from investing in out-of-state casinos.
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Pork producers’ challenge to a voter-approved law requiring pigs raised for consumption and sold in California to have space to move around before they are slaughtered was struck down by a federal judge Monday.
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The “restless specter” of the 21st Amendment allows Michigan to impose separate regulations on out-of-state alcohol retailers, including a ban on direct wine shipments to consumers, the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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Michigan argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday that a law preventing out-of-state wine merchants from making direct shipments to its residents does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause.
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Animal rights activists are applauding a federal judge’s decision to uphold a new Maryland law that bans retail pet stores from selling cats and dogs, a measure designed to curb puppy mills.
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Amazon urged a Ninth Circuit panel on Monday to find its local delivery drivers must arbitrate their labor grievances, a decision that could force the court to define the boundaries of interstate commerce.
Read moreRobert Doggart was improperly convicted of solicitation to commit federal arson for his planned attack on a mosque in New York because the religious building was not used in interstate commerce, as required by the underlying arson statute, the Sixth Circuit ruled. From his home in Tennessee, Doggart plotted to burn down the mosque, plans he shared with an FBI confidential informant.
Read moreRetailers legally selling marijuana for the past month in Michigan say they have drawn customers from surrounding Midwestern states where the drug remains illegal and, as Illinois prepares to joins the recreational market on Wednesday, officials are renewing warnings to consumers against carrying such products over state lines.
Read moreThe National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation sued California in federal court, claiming voter-approved Proposition 12 of 2018, on pork sales, “has thrown a giant wrench into the workings of the interstate market in pork.”
Read moreThe Association For Accessible Medicines sued the California Attorney General in federal court, claiming the state’s “pay for delay” law, barring pharmaceutical companies from paying competitors to keep generic drugs off the market is an unconstitutional interference with interstate commerce.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit claiming a beach city’s ordinance banning short-term rentals unlawfully disrupts the flow of interstate commerce.
Read moreMister E-Liquid sued Michigan in federal court, claiming its recent ban on sales of vaporized tobacco products violates the Interstate Commerce Clause and the federal Tobacco Control Act.
Read moreA truck driver who brought a federal wage class action prevailed at the Supreme Court on Tuesday in keeping the dispute out of arbitration.
Read moreIn a victory for out-of-state alcohol sellers, the Seventh Circuit said Wednesday an Illinois law prohibiting those retailers from shipping liquor to in-state consumers “smacks of protectionism” and may not be lawful under the constitutional amendment that repealed Prohibition.
Read moreDismissing criminal charges against two Michigan doctors, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that Congress did not have authority to pass a nationwide law banning female genital mutilation and that such regulations should be left to the states.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit upheld a Wisconsin law that requires all butter sold in the state to be graded, rejecting an artisanal dairy maker’s claim that the government has no business setting flavor standards for butter.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Thursday in an artisanal butter maker’s challenge to a Wisconsin law that requires all butter sold in the state to be graded on taste.
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