AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC., ET AL.
v.
SCHEINER, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE OF PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 28, 1987
Decided June 23, 1987
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stephen M. Shapiro argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Andrew L. Frey, Kenneth S. Geller, Mark I. Levy, Daniel R. Barney, Robert Digges, Jr., William S. Busker, and Walter Hellerstein.
Suellen M. Wolfe, Chief Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, argued the cause for appellees. With her on the brief were LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, Andrew S. Gordon, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Bryan E. Barbin and Michael A. Roman, Deputy Attorneys General, and Allen C. Warshaw.*
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Arkansas by Steve Clark, Attorney General, Chris Parker, and Ted Goodloe; for the State of New Jersey by W. Cary Edwards, Attorney General, and Michael R. Clancy and Mary R. Hamill, Deputy Attorneys General; for the State of Vermont by Michael H. Gottesman, Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Attorney General, and Thomas R. Viall and Robert C. Schwartz, Assistant Attorneys General; and for the Transportation Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky by David Armstrong, Attorney General of Kentucky, A. Stephen Reeder, Special Assistant Attorney General, James R. Cox, and Janet P. Jakubowicz.
Supreme Court of United States.
JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.
Again we are "asked to decide whether state taxes as applied to an interstate motor carrier run afoul of the commerce clause, Art. I, § 8, of the Federal Constitution." Aero Mayflower Transit Co. v. Board of Railroad Comm'rs,332 U.S. 495, 496 (1947). That statement of the question presented might equally well have introduced...
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