Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport Association, et al.

Case Updates

The Supreme Court affirmed the First Circuit’s decision.

NCLC urged the Supreme Court to affirm the First Circuit’s determination that Maine’s effort to regulate motor carrier traffic where it involved the unknowing transport of tobacco products is preempted by the federal Motor Carrier Act and the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act. In its brief, NCLC stressed that motor carriers should not be required to deal with a patchwork of state regulations and that Congress addressed this concern by enacting uniform national regulation.