The Interstate Commerce Act as Amended

The ‘Railroad Problem’ and the Interstate Commerce Act

The emergence of railroads presented a problem for the developing economic profession. Railroads, by their very nature, often had a localized monopoly. The check that competition was expected to impose on firm behavior was singularly lacking. At the same time, railroads in the United States were national in scope and thus affected interstate commerce. The Interstate Commerce Act and the Commiss...

Regulation and the Theory of Legislative Choice: The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

Regulation and the Theory of Legislative Choice: The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 Author(s): Thomas W. Gilligan, William J. Marshall and Barry R. Weingast Source: The Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Apr., 1989), pp. 35-61 Published by: The University of Chicago Press for The Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and The University of Chicago Law School Stable URL: http:...

Are Interstate Cases Still the ‘Black Hole’ of Child Support Enforcement? Effects of the Uniform Interstate Enforcement Act

So long as child support enforcement was entirely the legal domain of the states, it was nearly impossible to pursue claims across state lines, and interstate claims were characterized as the “black hole” of child support enforcement. The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) clarified lines of authority, opened state IV-D agencies and courts to interstate claimants, and invented powerf...

The Bournewood gap (as amended?).

Both the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 authorise the treatment and detention of the mentally ill. Their interface is often clear cut. After all, the 1983 Act formally sanctions and safeguards compulsion where it is necessary to protect patients or others. Individuals can only be detained for psychiatric, not physical, health purposes. And such detention can only take p...

Transporting minors for immoral purposes: the case for the Child Custody Protection Act & the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.