http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1883/ U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>Did the Louisiana law violate the Constitution by posing an improper restriction on interstate commerce?</p><p>No. The Court found that the Louisiana law did not violate the Constitution. Justice Bradley reasoned that since the law imposed a tax upon merchandise which had "already arrived at its destination," merchandise which was effectively "a commodity in the market of New Orleans," it was not offensive to the Commerce Clause. It was not a regulation on goods which were "in a state of transit." Furthermore, the law did not discriminate against foreign producers because it applied to all goods within the state, not exempting products which had been made locally.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1883/1883_2/ <p>Does a state criminal proceeding based on an information rather than a grand jury indictment violate the 14th Amendment's due process clause?</p><p>No, this was not a violation of due process. Any legal proceeding that protects liberty and justice is due process. The majority opinion, authored by Matthews, reasoned that the Constitution cannot be locked into static conceptions bound by time and place. The Court also took the position that nothing in the Constitution is superfluous. Since the Fifth Amendment contains both a guarantee of grand jury proceedings and a guarantee of due process, the latter cannot embrace the former.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1883/1883_0/