Holding that the Associated Press's not-for-profit newsgathering activities "amount[ed] to commercial intercourse . . . within the meaning of the Constitution" because it "involve[d] the constant use of channels of interstate . . . communication"
337 U.S. 755 (1949) Cited 145 times 2 Legal Analyses
In Farmers Reservoir, for example, the Supreme Court concluded that "the physical operation, control and maintenance" of "canals, reservoirs, and headgates" for a company that stored water and distributed it to farms through the company's canals were activities "[c]learly... not done on a farm."