United States Fourth Circuit

In a suit concerning the effect of federal commerce power, the district court erred in abstaining from deciding whether West Virginia requirements concerning waste removal unconstitutionally burden interstate commerce.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2005
• Published 01/24/2005

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and Glen E. CONRAD, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:John Philip Melick, Jackson Kelly, P.L.L.C., Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellants.  Webster J. Arceneaux, III, Lewis, Glasser, Casey & Rollins, P.L.L.C., Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Brian C. Helmick, Jackson Kelly, P.L.L.C., Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellants.  Martin J. Glasser, Lewis, Glasser, Casey & Rollins, P.L.L.C., Charleston, West Virginia;  Leonard B. Knee, Eric Calvert, Bowles, Rice, Mcdavid, Graff & Love, P.L.L.C., Charleston, West Virginia;  Richard E. Hitt, Franklin G. Crabtree, Public Service Commission, Charleston, West Virginia;  Samuel F. Hanna, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellees.