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The Radio And Interstate Commerce
The Radio And Interstate Commerce
Michigan Law Review
As each newly discovered scientific principle is taken advantage of in the practical world, new legal problems arise around it. One way or another it is eventually taken care of by the expansion of the legal system to embrace the new situation. The discovery of radio transmission is an example made striking by the extraordinary speed with which it has become a part of the people's daily life and the conflicts of interest that are peculiar to it. The law found itself relieved of many of the embarrassments in dealing with the problem by the fact that Congress early undertook …
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Interstate Ferries And The Commerce Clause, C. M. Kneier
Interstate Ferries And The Commerce Clause, C. M. Kneier
Michigan Law Review
The Constitution of the United States confers upon Congress the power to regulate commerce among the several states; the transportation of passengers and freight across a navigable river from one state to another by ferryboat, however short the distance traversed, or frequent the trips made, is interstate commerce. It is the purpose of this study to point out what action Congress has taken under the power thus conferred upon it relative to interstate ferries and to determine the relative spheres of authority of the states and of the National Government over this subject.