In Gibbons v.Ogden,the Supreme Court decided that the interstate commerce clause allowed New York to grant a monopoly to a steamboat operator.

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In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court ruled that the commerce clause of the Constitution gave Congress, not individual states, the power to regulate interstate commerce. The case involved a dispute between two steamboat operators, but the Supreme Court did not uphold New York's grant of a monopoly to one of them. Instead, the Court found that only Congress had the authority to regulate commerce between the states.

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