| New York University. School of Law - Law - 1996 - 738 pages
...concerned with unconstitutional economic activities. The Court held that the Gun-Free School Zones Act, 'by its terms has nothing to do with "commerce" or...enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms'.17 This decision will have little if any effect on the threat of guns in and near schools since... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Competition - 1997 - 388 pages
...legislation regulating that activity will be sustained, [case citations omitted) Section 922(q) is a criminal statute that by its terms has nothing to...enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms. Section 922(q) is not an essential part of a larger regulation of economic activity, in which the regulatory... | |
| Robert V. Percival, Dorothy C. Alevizatos - Law - 1997 - 468 pages
...problem regulating economic or commercial activity. He emphasized that the Gun-Free School Zones Act had "nothing to do with 'commerce' or any sort of economic...enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms" [id. at 1630-31]. Citing with approval Model v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. [452... | |
| John M. Bruce, Clyde Wilcox - Law - 1998 - 294 pages
...v. Lopez, 19). Writing for the majority, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist even noted that the act "by its terms has nothing to do with commerce or any...enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms."5 The four justices in the minority — John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,... | |
| S. N. Colamery - Affirmative action programs - 1998 - 344 pages
...activity—firearm possession within a school zone— was beyond Congress* constitutional reach since it had "nothing to do with 'commerce' or any sort of economic...enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms."107 The Court rejected the Government's "cost of crime" argument as an overexpansive theory... | |
| Michael S. Greve - Federal government - 1999 - 232 pages
...wheat production, even for home consumption, is '"commerce," whereas the Gun Free School Zones Act "by its terms has nothing to do with "commerce' or...enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms."6 Even this distinction, however. turns murky. Rejecting Justice Rehnquist's assertion that... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Political Science - 1999 - 334 pages
...of the gun nor any other commercial transaction was relevant. The Court emphasized that the offense "has nothing to do with 'commerce' or any sort of...enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms," 514 US at 561, and that the offense "is in no sense come Security Act (ERISA), 29 USC § 1003 (1994)... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Political Science - 1999 - 338 pages
...of the gun nor any other commercial transaction was relevant. The Court emphasized that the offense "has nothing to do with 'commerce' or any sort of...enterprise, however broadly one might define those terms," 514 US at 561, and that the offense "is in no sense come Security Act (ERISA), 29 USC 8 1003 (1994)... | |
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