AMERICAN TRUCKING ASS'NS v. SECRETARY OF ADMIN.


415 Mass. 337 (1993)

613 N.E.2d 95

AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC., & others vs. SECRETARY OF ADMINISTRATION & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 25, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Digges, Jr., of Virginia (Jennifer L. Wieloch with him) for the plaintiffs.

Jon Laramore, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

We must decide whether certain flat annual fees imposed by Massachusetts on interstate motor carriers are measured and assessed in a manner which violates the commerce clause of art. I, § 8, of the United States Constitution. The plaintiff, American Trucking Associations, Inc., a national trade organization, along with two interstate trucking companies, brought this class action in the Superior Court on behalf of taxpayers whose trucks are "base-registered...

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