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Legal Citation: 447 U.S. 429 (1980)

Petitioner
Reeves, Inc., a Wyoming concrete distributor

Respondent
Stake, et al., members of the South Dakota Cement Commission

Petitioner's Claim
That South Dakota's refusal to sell cement to an out-of-state buyer, due to a "cement shortage" which compelled it to prefer purchasers from within the state, constituted "hoarding" and was a preferential system forbidden by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
William J. Janklow

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Dennis M. Kirven

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun (writing for the Court), Warren E. Burger, Thurgood Marshall, William H. Rehnquist, Potter Stewart

Justices Dissenting
William J. Brennan, Jr., Lewis F. Powell, Jr., John Paul Stevens, Byron R. White

Place
Washington,...