ltitude of vastly different state laws, more difficult to pass. The second case will raise the question of the involvement of the Food and Drug Administration in monitoring tobacco as a drug. Finally, the last case, which has received a tremendous amount of publicity recently, confronts the issue of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act in which a federal law would “pre-empt” state laws by making it illegal to give out information on drivers’ licences.“This is a case about power. . .”said Justice Stevens in his dissention in Seminole Tribe v. Florida. For the last hundred and fifty years, the supreme court ...
