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Spare O'Lake5/19/2010 11:45:24 am PDT

re: #265 lostlakehiker

There is some body of law around boycotts. The general idea was that secondary boycotts are illegal. One may boycott the bus company because it discriminates, but one may not boycott the gas chain because it sells gasoline to the bus company.

A boycott of Arizona might be seen as a primary boycott. A boycott of Oklahoma, because it fails to boycott AZ, would certainly be a secondary boycott.

How would LA enforce its boycott? Are grocery stores in LA forbidden to carry produce from AZ? Are LA civilians forbidden to vacation in AZ? Are AZ civilians forbidden to vacation in LA? Or is it just that LA city officials may not schedule a “retreat” in AZ?

Has there ever to your knowledge been a case of a municipality boycotting another State? Or of a State boycotting another State?