Arizona Public Service Co. v. Snead

Arizona Public Service Co. v. Snead
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 26, 1979 Decided April 18, 1979
Full case name	Arizona Public Service Co., et al. v. Snead, Director of Revenue Division, Taxation and Revenue Department of New Mexico, et al.
Docket no.	77-1810
Citations	441 U.S. 141 (more) 99 S. Ct. 1629; 60 L. Ed. 2d 106; 1979 U.S. LEXIS 32
Case history
Prior	Arizona Public Service Co. v. O'Chesky, 91 N.M. 485, 576 P.2d 291 (1978)
Holding
New Mexico's energy tax on the generation of electricity is invalid under the Supremacy Clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Stewart, joined by Burger, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens
Concurrence	Rehnquist, joined by White
Laws applied
15 U.S.C. § 391

Arizona Public Service Co. v. Snead, 441 U.S. 141 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a New Mexico tax on the generation of electricity was invalid under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. Snead was the director of the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department.