Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona
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southern-pacific-co-v-arizona-201-14878524
title:
Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona
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Southern Pacific Company v. Arizona, 325 U.S. 761 (1945), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Arizona Train Limit Law of 1912, which prohibited passenger trains with more than fourteen cars and prohibited freight trains with more than seventy cars, placed an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce. The Court held that the law imposed a burden far greater than necessary to achieve Arizona's legitimate interest in lowering the rate of train accidents. Thi
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1945 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacific_Co._v._Arizona
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2023-09-13T03:06:24Z
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