In The
Supreme Court of the United States

South Central Bell Telephone Companyv.Alabama

Decided March 23, 1999
Justice O’Connor, Concurrence

CASE DETAILS

Topic: Economic Activity
Court vote: 9-0

Note: No other Justices joined this opinion.

Citation: 526 U.S. 160
Docket: 97-2045
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Opinion

JUSTICE O'CONNOR, concurring.

I join the opinion of the Court, and I agree that the State's failure to properly raise its challenge to our negative Commerce Clause jurisprudence supports a decision not to pass on the merits of this claim. Ante this page. I further note, however, that the State does nothing that would persuade me to reconsider or abandon our well-established body of negative Commerce Clause jurisprudence.