C&A Carbone, Inc. v. Clarkstown, Town of

ELR Citation: ELR 20815
No(s). 92-1402 (U.S. May 16, 1994)

The Court holds that a New York town's ordinance requiring all solid waste to be processed at a designated transfer station before leaving the town violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The avowed purpose of the ordinance is to retain the processing fees charged at the transfer stat...