South-Central Timber Development, Inc. v. Wunnicke
Case Date: 11/04/1984
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South-Central Timber Development v. Wunnicke (467 U.S. 82 (1984)), was a constitutional law case before the Supreme Court of the United States. It held unconstitutional Alaska's inclusion of a requirement that purchasers of state-owned timber process it within state before it was shipped out of state. According to a plurality opinion by Justice White, Alaska could not impose "downstream" conditions in the timber-processing market as a result of its ownership of the timber itself. The opinion summarized "[the] limit of the market-participant doctrine" as "[allowing a State to impose burdens on commerce within the market in which it is a participant, but [to] go no further. The State may not impose conditions [that] have a substantial regulatory effect outside of that particular market."[1]
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