Rosenblatt v. City of Santa Monica, California
Petition for certiorari denied on May 18, 2020
Issues: (1) Whether a local ordinance that discriminates
against interstate commerce, and was
enacted for a discriminatory purpose, must
additionally discriminate exclusively against
nonresidents to be subject to heightened
scrutiny under the dormant commerce
clause; and (2) whether a local ordinance that purports to
ban advertisements for interstate services
made over the internet, and is enforced in
that extraterritorial manner, can be saved
from dormant commerce clause scrutiny
based on an irrebuttable “presumption” that
the legislature did not “intend” for the
ordinance to apply in the extraterritorial
manner in which the ordinance is being
enforced.