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Paul vs. Virginia
A famous lawsuit decided in 1869 by the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the court held that insurance was not commerce and, therefore, not interstate commerce; thus, insurance was not subject to federal control. This was upset by the Supreme Court in 1944 in an equally famous case brought against the Southeastern Underwriters Association, usually referred to as the S.E.U.A. case. The citation is Paul vs. Virginia, 8 Wall. 168, 19 L. Ed. 35T (1868).