The following excerpt is from Rochester Telephone Corp. v. Public Service Com'n of State of N.Y., 637 N.Y.S.2d 333, 660 N.E.2d 1112, 87 N.Y.2d 17 (N.Y. 1995):
"Where the statute regulates evenhandedly to effectuate a legitimate local public interest, and its effects on interstate commerce are only incidental, it will be upheld unless the burden imposed on such commerce is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits." (Pike v. Bruce Church, 397 U.S. 137, 142, 90 S.Ct. 844, 847, 25 L.Ed.2d 174.)
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