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Yoel Weisshaus v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 19-161 · judgment May 28, 2020
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
i QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW
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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?
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Whether a State agency may impose a sur charge or penalty for the use of cash as legal tender?
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Whether the dormant Commerce Clause allows using the Cost-Of-Living-Adjustment 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?
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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 theo ries, as held by the Fourth Circuit?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Yoel Weisshaus
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jan 11 2021Petition DENIED.
- Dec 16 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
- Oct 26 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 30, 2020)