Crosby_v._National_Foreign_Trade_Council

<i>Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council</i>

Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council

2000 United States Supreme Court case

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.[1] The Massachusetts Burma Law was modeled after similar legislation that had targeted the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Quick Facts Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council, Argued March 22, 2000 Decided June 19, 2000 ...

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."[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Young, Ernest A. 2006. "Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council." Federalism in America: An Encyclopedia.
  2. [2]
    Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council, 530 U.S. 363 (2000).

Further reading

  • Denning, Brannon P.; McCall, Jack H. (2000). "Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council. 120 S.Ct. 2288". American Journal of International Law. 94 (4). The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 94, No. 4: 750–758. doi:10.2307/2589803. JSTOR 2589803. S2CID 229170511.
  • Stumberg, Robert; Porterfield, Matthew C. (2001). "Who Preempted the Massachusetts Burma Law? Federalism and Political Accountability under Global Trade Rules". Publius. 31 (3). Publius, Vol. 31, No. 3: 173–204. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a004903. JSTOR 3330999.


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