Kidd v. Pearson

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued April 4, 1888
Decided October 22, 1888

Full case name

J. S. Kidd v. I. E. Pearson

Citations

128 U.S. 1 (more)

9 S. Ct. 6; 32 L. Ed. 346; 1888 U.S. LEXIS 2193

Prior history

Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa

Subsequent history

None

Holding

There is no conflict and the state law is valid. The Court erected a distinction between manufacture and commerce. The state law regulated manufacturing only. A broad view of commerce that embraces manufacturing would also embrace the power to regulate "every branch of human industry."

Court membership

Chief Justice Melville Fuller

Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan T. Stanley Matthews · Horace Gray Samuel Blatchford · Lucius Q.C. Lamar II

Case opinions

Majority

Lamar, joined by Miller, Field, Bradley, Harlan, Matthews, Gray, Blatchford

Fuller took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Kidd v. Pearson, 128 U.S. 1 (1888), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a distinction between manufacturing and commerce meant that an Iowa law that prohibited the manufacture of alcohol (in this case for sale out-of-state) was constitutional as it did not conflict with the power of the US Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

Background

An Iowa state law made the manufacturing of liquor in Iowa illegal, even though the liquor was being sold out-of-state.

Question before the Supreme Court

Is there a conflict between the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

Decision of the Court

The court ruled that there was not a conflict between Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce and the state law. Therefore the law was valid.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "Kidd v. Pearson - 128 U.S. 1 (1888)". Oyez: Chicago-Kent College of Law. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
↑ "Kidd v. Pearson - 128 U.S. 1 (1888)". Retrieved 17 January 2014.

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