with the ulterior purpose of tempting them to yield, that purpose may be effectively frustrated by the simple expedient of not yielding. Id. at 482, 43 S.Ct. 597 (emphasis added). Determining that Massachusetts had failed to demonstrate that the Maternity Act had caused it any particularized and concrete burden, the Court held 'that the Commonwealth had “present[ed] no justiciable controversy, either in its own behalf or as the representative of its citizens.” Id. at 480, 43 S.Ct. 597. The iCourt concluded that Massachusetts’ challenge was ultimately “political, and not judicial in character, and therefore [was] not a matter which admits of the exercise of the judicial power.” Id. at 483, 43 S.Ct. 597; see also New Jersey v. Sargent, 269 U.S. 328, 337, 46 S.Ct. 122, 70 L.Ed. 289 (1926) (<HOLDING>). Nearly one hundred years later, West Virginia
holding that a commission is a body with special and limited power and it can only exercise the power expressly or impliedly granted to it and any reasonable doubt of existence of any power must be resolved against the exercise thereof holding that the exercise of judicial power under article iii of the united states constitution requires an actual case or controversy recognizing a distinction between the power of a federal court to hear statelaw claims and the discretionary exercise of that power holding that the federal power act did not evince an intent to permit states to prohibit export of hydroelectric power out of state holding that the states allegation that the congressional act at issue that went beyond the power of congress and impinged on that of the state  did not suffice as a basis for invoking an exercise of judicial power