STATE BD. OF INS. v. TODD SHIPYARDS

No. 144.

370 U.S. 451 (1962)

STATE BOARD OF INSURANCE ET AL. v. TODD SHIPYARDS CORP.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 25, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bob E. Shannon and Fred B. Werkenthin, Assistant Attorneys General of Texas, argued the cause for petitioners. With them on the briefs were Will Wilson, Attorney General, C. K. Richards and Coleman Gay III, Assistant Attorneys General.

Charles R. Vickery, Jr. argued the cause for respondent. With him on the briefs was Frank A. Liddell.

Cloyd Laporte and John Mason Harding filed a brief for the Church Fire Insurance Corp. et al., as amici curiae, urging affirmance.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Attorney General of Louisiana, filed a brief for the State of Louisiana, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.


MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

When we held in United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Assn., 322 U.S. 533, that the modern business of insurance was "interstate commerce," we put it in a category which Congress could regulate and which, if our prior decisions controlled, could not in some respects be regulated by the States, even in absence of federal...

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