Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Hunt

Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Hunt
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 21, 1992 Decided June 1, 1992
Full case name	Chemical Waste Management, Inc., petitioner v. Guy Hunt, Governor of Alabama et al., respondents
Citations	504 U.S. 334 (more) 112 S. Ct. 2009; 119 L. Ed. 2d 121; 60 U.S.L.W. 4433; 34 ERC 1721; 22 Envtl. L. Rep. 20,909
Case history
Prior	Hunt v. Chemical Waste Mgmt., Inc. 584 So.2d 1367 (Ala. 1991)
Holding
No state may attempt to isolate itself from a problem common to the several States by raising barriers to the free flow of interstate trade; a fee on the importation of out-of-state waste constitutes a barrier to interstate trade. Supreme Court of Alabama reversed and case remanded with instructions.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas
Dissent	Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Art. I § 8

Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Hunt, 504 U.S. 334 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that an Alabama law imposing a fee (of $72 per ton) on out-of-state hazardous waste being disposed of in-state violated the Dormant Commerce Clause.^{[citation needed]}