No. 20-571

Yoel Weisshaus v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2020-10-30
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: commerce-clause congressional-authority dormant-commerce-clause legal-tender pleading-standards price-fixing state-regulation
Key Terms:
Securities
Latest Conference: 2021-01-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

When Congress exercises authority under the Commerce Clause, whether a negative impact to that act of Congress is actionable within the parameters of the dormant Commerce Clause?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW 1. When Congress exercises authority under the Commerce Clause, whether a negative impact to that act of Congress is actionable within the parameters of the dormant Commerce Clause? 2. Whether a State agency may impose a surcharge or penalty for the use of cash as legal tender? 8. Whether the dormant Commerce Clause allows using the and the regional Consumer Price Index as the ground for price fixing in . _. establishing a toll rate, based on what a local authority : deems is the user’s maximum adorability, rather than a ; fair approximation of the use or privilege? ~ 4, Whether a complaint is required to plead extra facts to exclude any alternative theory, as held by the Ninth Circuit and applied by the Second Circuit, or that ; a complaint does not need to exclude alternative theories, as held by the Fourth Circuit?

Docket Entries

2021-01-11
Petition DENIED.
2020-12-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2020-10-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 30, 2020)

Attorneys

Yoel Weisshaus
Yoel Weisshaus — Petitioner