Wiley Blount Rutledge, Bob-Lo Excursion Company v. Michigan…
“ To determine what persons and commodities shall be taken abroad is to control what persons and commodities may become the subject of foreign commerce, and that is to control the lifeblood of the commerce itself. ”
Wiley Blount Rutledge, Bob-Lo Excursion Company v. Michigan…
“ It fails to lay down any standard by which we can judge when foreign commerce is foreign enough to become free of local regulation. The commerce involved here is not distinguishable from a great deal of the traffic across our Canadian and Mexican borders, except perhaps in volume. Communities have sprung up on either side, whose social and economic relations are interdependent, but are conducted with scrupulous regard for the international boundary. ”
Wiley Blount Rutledge, Bob-Lo Excursion Company v. Michigan…
“ We do not and apparently cannot enunciate any legal criteria by which those who engage in foreign commerce can predict which classification we will impose upon any particular operation and we lay down no rule other than our passing impression to guide ourselves or our successors. All is left to case-by-case conjecture. The commerce clause was intended to promote commerce rather than litigation. ”
