LEB 320F Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Supremacy Clause

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Legal Environment of Business
• Course: LEB 320F
• Professor: Pedersen Fran

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The us constitution: provides for basic organization of federal government. Checks and balances: grants specific powers (enumerated, delegated) to the federal government, places limits (bill of rights) on the exercise of governmental power. Case: two federal laws limiting violence on school grounds and against women (cid:449)ere de(cid:272)lared i(cid:374)(cid:448)alid (cid:894)(cid:271)e(cid:455)o(cid:374)d the s(cid:272)ope of co(cid:374)gress" (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)er(cid:272)e po(cid:449)er(cid:895). Case: gonzales v. raich: congress prohibited local cultivation and use of marijuana in califor(cid:374)ia (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause (cid:862)produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odit(cid:455) for ho(cid:373)e consumption has a substantial effect on supply and demand in the national (cid:373)arket for that (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odit(cid:455). (cid:863) Goal: protect health, safety, and general welfare of state citizens. Effect: empowers state governments to regulate commercial activities within each state, even if those activities have a substantial effect on interstate commerce. Limitations: federal role in regulating commerce dominates due to federal supremacy clause (cid:894)(cid:862)supre(cid:373)e la(cid:449) of the la(cid:374)d(cid:863)(cid:895: preemption: when federal law supercedes state law. Federal law expressly or implicitly prohibits state regulation.