Bruce v. Director, Dep't of Chesapeake Bay Affairs

ELR Citation: ELR 20271
No(s). 351 (Md. Ct. App. Apr 16, 1971)

Residential and territorial intrastate restrictions on commercial crabbing and oystering are an unconstitutional exercise of the state's police power, because there is no reasonable basis for the groupings nor a reasonable relation to the public interest. Restricting a waterman to his own residentia...