# Levin v. Commerce Energy, Inc.

> Supreme Court of the United States · June 1, 2010 · 560 U.S. 413

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6680922

## Case

- **Full name:** RICHARD A. LEVIN, TAX COMMISSIONER OF OHIO v. COMMERCE ENERGY, INC.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** June 1, 2010
- **Citations:** 560 U.S. 413; 22 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 408; 78 U.S.L.W. 4491; 176 L. Ed. 2d 1131; 130 S. Ct. 2323; 2010 U.S. LEXIS 4380
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Alito
- **Judges:** Alito, Breyer, Ginsburg, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Sotomayor, Stevens, Thomas
- **Cited by:** 200 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that “if the Ohio scheme is in- deed unconstitutional, surely the Ohio courts are better posi- tioned to determine—unless and until the Ohio legislature weighs in—how to comply with the mandate of equal treat- ment”
- recognizing that “[pjlaintiffs need not demonstrate that there is a ‘guarantee’ that their injuries will be redressed by a favorable decision” but “only that a favorable decision is likely to redress” their injuries
- noting that an adequate legal remedy “must be one cognizable in federal court ” (internal quotation marks omitted)
- holding that comity required plaintiffs’ claim to proceed originally in state court where plaintiffs alleged “discriminatory taxation in violation of the Commerce and Equal Protection Clauses”

## Opinion text

Justice Alito,
concurring in the judgment.
I agree with the Court that principles of comity bar the present action. I am doubtful about the Court’s efforts to distinguish Hibbs v. Winn, 542 U.S. 88 , 124 S. Ct. 2276 , 159 L. Ed. 2d 172 (2004), but whether today’s holding undermines Hibbs’ foundations is a question that can be left for another day.

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