United States Second Circuit

Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 10, 6621d(a), that requires manufacturers of some mercury-containing products to label their products and packaging to inform consumers that the products contain mercury, does not violate the dormant Commerce Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/12/2000
• Decided 11/07/2001
• Published 11/07/2001

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge:, Before WALKER, Chief Judge, POOLER and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bernard D. Lambek, Paterson & Walke, Montpelier, VT, for movants., Maureen F. Leary, Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Preeta D. Bansal, Solicitor General, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, Christopher Amato, Maureen F. Leary, Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief), Albany, NY, for amici curiae States of New York, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald A. Shems, Assistant Attorney General, (William H. Sorrell, Attorney General, Rebecca Ellis, Dianne H. Sanford, Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief), Montpelier, VT, for defendants-appellants., Steven J. Rosenbaum, Covington & Burling (Anthony J. Vlatas, on the brief), Washington, DC, and Geoffrey W. Crawford, O'Neill, Crawford & Green, Burlington, VT, for plaintiff-appellee.