Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Constitutional Law
Jun. 8, 2020
Does banning alligator sales interfere with interstate commerce?
Many of the animals whose sale is barred in California are endangered. Alligators, on the other hand, were removed from the U.S. Endangered Species List in 1987 after their numbers rebounded into the millions.
Does California's ban on importing alligator skin constitute a federally preempted effort to interfere with interstate commerce?
Plaintiffs in the fashion industry and the state of Louisiana -- home to numerous alligator farms -- made that argument to a federal judge in Sacramento on Friday in April in Paris v. Becerra, 2:19-cv-02471-KJM-CKD (E.D. Cal., filed Dec. 10, 2019) and Lo...
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