waste collection in Coral Springs. As the Eleventh Circuit concluded in City of Delray Beach, there is nothing in the bid process here which promoted local economic interests over out-of-state interests. The bidding process was open to all, and there was no requirement that local interests be favored in the performance of the contract. I find nothing in the record to support the claim that the City’s actions constituted the sort of “local economic protection” that the Commerce Clause forbids. Merely because the City Ordinance and Franchise Agreement required compliance with the District’s Interlocal Agreement and Plan of Operations for disposal does not itself violate the Commerce Clause. East Coast Recycling, Inc. v. City of Port St. Lucie, 234 F.Supp.2d 1259, 1264 (S.D.Fla.2002) (<HOLDING>). B. The District’s Flow Control Regulations
holding that ordinances the effect of which was to remove 10400 annual tons of solid waste at 80 a ton from interstate commerce were discriminatory in practical effect holding that three municipal flow control ordinances similar to the one here at issue discriminated against interstate commerce holding that the government can satisfy the hobbs act interstate commerce requirement by showing that the robbery resulted in the closure of a business engaged in interstate commerce holding that ordinance requiring all municipal solid waste generated within county to be delivered to a particular facility discriminated against interstate commerce holding that mere reference to the interlocal agreement in the citys ordinances even assuming the interlocal agreement impermissibly burdens interstate commerce by restricting the flow of solid waste is not enough to render those ordinances invalid