Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
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- Gibbons V. Ogden (1824)
- A U.S. Supreme Court case in which Chief Justice John Marshall's decision struck down state barriers to interstate commerce. The case involved a steamboat operator who was denied a license by one of the states he serviced.


