Institute for Justice (IJ), Amicus Curiae
William R. Maurer, Counsel of Record
The Institute for Justice is a nonprofit public interest legal center dedicated to defending private property rights, economic and educational liberty, and the free exchange of ideas. William R. Maurer is the executive director of the Institute for Justice Washington Chapter. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 2, 2013. One of the foremost principles that has sustained us as a union, rather than a mere league of States, is that a State is forbidden from creating distinctions among residents and nonresidents when such distinctions “hinder…
