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Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Commission (or ICC) was a regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. The agency was abolished in 1995, and the agency's remaining functions were transferred to the Surface Transportation Board.
The Commission's five members were appointed by the President with the consent of the United States Senate. This was the first independent agency (or so-called Fourth Branch). The ICC's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers.
Fraud and Interstate Commerce
Section 1343 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code creates the crime of wire fraud as follows:Whoever, having devised . . . any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire ...
Intertubes = Interstate Commerce
United States v. Barlow, No. 08-60556 (5th Cir. May 6, 2009) (Wiener, Dennis, Clement)Barlow was convicted of "(1) attempting to persuade or entice a person he believed to be a minor to engage in sexual activity in violation of 18 U...
Interstate Commerce and The Exemption Issue
There are more than twenty (20) exemptions from overtime enumerated in the Fair Labor Standards Act. Mostly, employers only are concerned with the three so-called white-collar exemptions (executive, administrative, professional)...
Interstate commerce has its limits in criminal law.
Praised be Orlando federal judge Gregory Presnell for delineating the limits of federal jurisdiction in criminal prosecutions, in finding the federal sex offender statute unconstitutional when it comes to criminalizing to failing ot register with a state agency as a sex offender...
Montana Firearms and the Interstate Commerce Clause:
Montana's staunchly pro-Second Amendment Governor, Democrat Brian Schweitzer, has signed Montana HB 246, the Montana Firearms Freedom Act...
Arbitration Record Must Contain Evidence of Interstate Commerce
The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals recently reversed an order compelling arbitration because the record contained no evidence other than the contract itself to prove that the contract involved interstate commerce...
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