Automaker Tesla takes fight to North Carolina

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11. Seems like NC's law violates the interstate commerce clause.

I recall a similar case about wine. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/politics/16cnd-wine.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

There, the states trying to stop internet purchased shipments from out of state to their state had the argument that minors might buy the wine. They still lost. I don't see any legitimate reason for NC's law. Tesla services all of the cars it sells--wherever they are.

As the NYTimes reported on the wine case:

Justice Kennedy wrote today that the real object of the Michigan and New York statutes was not protection of minors but rather to give in-state wineries a competitive advantage over those in other states. Justice Kennedy, who was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, said New York and Michigan "provide little evidence for their claim that purchasing wine over the Internet by minors is a problem."