Land Rights
Styczinski v. Arnold
What the court held
The Eighth Circuit held that Minnesota's bullion-transaction regulation, Minn. Stat. Chapter 80G, violated the dormant Commerce Clause insofar as it reached wholly out-of-state transactions. The court reversed and remanded for the district court to address severability.
What it means
A state can regulate dealers inside its borders, but it cannot project its regulatory regime onto transactions that happen entirely in other states.
Later proceedings addressed how much of the statute survived once its extraterritorial reach was severed; the published 2022 opinion governs the constitutional question it decided.
This was a procedural ruling: the Eighth Circuit reversed and returned the case to the district court for a severability analysis. It is not a final judgment, a damages award, or a settlement.