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by btilly 5000 days ago
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

Every one of these sales takes place over the internet, and across state lines. This is interstate commerce. How then are states able to regulate it?

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It's not that simple: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/stateco...

Since the regulations aren't applied specifically to out-of-state businesses, and considering that many states have the same laws (hence there's no unreasonable burden on out-of-state businesses), they may be legal.

I'm not a lawyer either, though.