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Any Local Sale Is Purely Local

This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”

Subject distribution

  • Constitutional Law1

Example wrong choices

  • 14339_good_shepherd_science_kit · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice AYes, because the law regulates only sales of learning kits in stores located within the state.

    Why it's attractive

    The outside sellers have contracts to sell into the state, and the law blocks those goods from the market.

    Why it's wrong

    The outside sellers have contracts to sell into the state, and the law blocks those goods from the market.

  • 14339_good_shepherd_science_kit · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BYes, because the state's interest in protecting children from faulty animal science justifies this burden on interstate commerce.

    Why it's attractive

    The statute itself protects in-state makers, and only the in-state product satisfies the criteria.

    Why it's wrong

    The statute itself protects in-state makers, and only the in-state product satisfies the criteria.

  • 14339_good_shepherd_science_kit · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice CNo, because the law impairs the obligations of the contracts between the outside kit makers and the in-state stores.

    Why it's attractive

    The same facts are organized around market exclusion and out-of-state competitors.

    Why it's wrong

    The same facts are organized around market exclusion and out-of-state competitors.

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