Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council

Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council

Argued March 22, 2000
Decided June 19, 2000
Full case name Stephen P. Crosby, Secretary of Administration and Finance of Massachusetts, et al., Petitioners
v.
National Foreign Trade Council
Citations

530 U.S. 363 (more)

120 S. Ct. 2288
Holding
The state Act is preempted and its application unconstitutional, under the Supremacy Clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice
William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority Souter, joined by Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer
Concurrence Scalia, joined by Thomas

Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council, 530 U.S. 363 (2000), was a unanimous case in which the Supreme Court of the United States used the federal preemption doctrine to strike down the Massachusetts Burma Law, a law that effectively prohibited Massachusetts' governmental agencies from buying goods and services from companies conducting business with Myanmar (Burma), essentially a secondary boycott. The Massachusetts Burma Law was modeled after similar legislation that had targeted the apartheid regime of South Africa.

The Court reasoned that since the United States Congress passed a law imposing sanctions on Myanmar, the Massachusetts law "undermines the intended purpose and 'natural effect' of at least three provisions of the federal Act, that is, its delegation of effective discretion to the President to control economic sanctions against Burma, its limitation of sanctions solely to United States persons and new investment, and its directive to the President to proceed diplomatically in developing a comprehensive, multilateral strategy towards Burma."

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