Supremacy Clause The case of Manufacturers Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District involves the Clean Air Act, which implements national air pollution standards for fleet vehicles, such as trucks, taxicabs, and buses. In the same manner, the South Coast Air Quality Management District implements its own pollution standards for Los Angele, California. A political entity of California, South Coast implements fleet rules that prohibit the lease or purchase by private and public lease operators of vehicles that do not meet its pollution standards. However, their standards are stricter than those imposed by the federal Clean Air Act. In this regard, although the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the fleet rules imposed by South Coast, an appeal to the …show more content…
can argue that to ensure equal protection, the same laws should be imposed for both domestic and out-of-state insurance companies. However, the writer thinks that in this case, the state of Alabama, as represented by Ward, will win because although different laws are imposed on the domestic insurance companies and the out-of-state insurance companies, it is still fair as it promotes the welfare of the state in that such a law ensures the economic growth of the state. This would be consistent with the Law and Economics School of thought, which believes that the promotion of market efficiency should be the main goal in decision making when it comes to legal matters (Cheeseman, 2013). In this case, Alabama’s state law on insurance companies aims to promote the efficiency of the local insurance market and also aims to protect the domestic insurance market’s interests. Without such a law, out-of-state insurance companies can easily dominate the local insurance market, which would deprive the local residents from opportunities that would be available to them if priority for business establishment were given to local