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51 Rutgers L. Rec. 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/rutglr51 and id is 1 raw text is: VOLUME 51 IssuE I: FALL 2023 THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME: INTERSTATE COMPACTS AND TEXTUAL SILENCE Sheldon H. Laskin* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................2 II. THE NATURE OF INTERSTATE COMPACTS.............................................................3 III. LEGISLATIVE SILENCE IS A POOR INDICATOR OF THE MEANING OF A FEDERAL STATUTE ..................................................................................................................4 IV. THE SUPREME COURT HAS CONSISTENTLY USED THE COMMON LAW TO RESOLVE DISPUTES BETWEEN COMPACT MEMBER STATES WHEN THE COMPACT IS SILENT ON THE CONTROLLING QUESTION.................................................................5 A. The Ellis Island Case ....................................................................................5 B. The Red River Compact Case ..................................................................7 C. The Waterfront Compact Case ..................................................................8 V. CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................9 *The author received his BA and JD from Rutgers University and an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Baltimore. He was an attorney for the Multistate Tax Commission, the administrative agency for the Multistate Tax Compact, for twenty years, during which he served as National Nexus Director, Counsel and Acting General Counsel. The author would like to thank Helen Hecht, Uniformity Counsel, Multistate Tax Commission; Bernard Bell, Professor of Law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar, Rutgers University; Nancy Prosser, General Counsel, Multistate Tax Commission and Thomas A. Tormey, Jr., Esquire, for reviewing drafts of this essay and for their helpful comments. 1

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