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Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Administrative Law : From 10/01/01 To 07/01/02

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Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Administrative Law, Transportation, Government Law
Title: CITY OF COLUMBUS v. OURS GARAGE & WRECKER SERV., INC.
Date: 06/20/02
Case Number: 01-419
Summary: 49 U.S.C. section 14501(c), which preempts prescriptions by a state related to a price, route, or service of any motor carrier with respect to the transportation of property, does not bar a state from delegating to municipalities and other local units the state's authority to establish safety regulations governing motor carriers of property, including tow trucks.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Administrative Law, Admiralty, Constitutional Law
Title: FEDERAL MAR. COMM'N v. S. CAROLINA STATE PORTS AUTH.
Date: 05/28/02
Case Number: 01-46
Summary: State sovereign immunity bars the Federal Maritime Commission from adjudicating a private party's complaint against the South Carolina State Ports Authority, an "arm of the state" of South Carolina.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Health Law
Title: THOMPSON v. W. STATES MED. CTR.
Date: 04/29/02
Case Number: 01-344
Summary: The Food and Drug Modernization Act of 1997's prohibitions on soliciting prescriptions for, and advertising, compounded drugs, which are exempt from the FDA's standard drug approval requirements, amount to an unconstitutional restriction on commercial speech.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Administrative Law, Oil & Gas Law, Public Utilities
Title: NEW YORK v. F.E.R.C.
Date: 03/04/02
Case Number: 00-568
Summary: While Section 205 of the Federal Power Act (FPA) gives the federal government control over management of the country's power grids, F.E.R.C. is not required under Section 206 of the FPA to regulate bundled retail power transmissions or to order universal unbundling where it determines that a remedy it orders sufficiently responds to regulating the wholesale energy market.

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