AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC. v. QUINN


437 A.2d 623 (1981)

AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC. et al. v. Rodney S. QUINN, et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided December 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray, Plumb & Murray, John C. Lightbody (orally), John C. Bannon, Thomas C. Newman, Portland, for plaintiffs.

William C. Nugent (orally), and Doris A. Harnett, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for defendants.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., GODFREY, NICHOLS, ROBERTS, CARTER and WATHEN, JJ., and DUFRESNE, A. R. J.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in the Superior Court, Kennebec County, striking down Maine's recently enacted truck tax as unconstitutional. We deny the appeal.

As enacted by the 1981 session of the legislature,1 29 M.R.S.A. § 246-A (Supp. 1981) requires that owners and operators of foreign-based trucks2 using Maine highways purchase either an annual highway use permit...

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