Jim Elwell wrote: >even if metrication statists could convince Congress to pass >legislation mandating metrication in the private sector, and >the President to sign it, it would in all likelihood be tossed >out by the courts >(see USSCt, Rubin v. Coors Brewing Company, 1995).
Thanks for the reference, I took a look at it and some related web pages. When you say 'mandating metrication', do you actually mean 'forbidding non-metric'. I can see that forbidding non-metric units on beer labels might bring up similar legal issues to that case. But 'mandating metric units' on beer (or any other product) labels has no parallels with that case that I can see. Presumably if it did, it might be possible to argue that the current and proposed versions of the FPLA are also unconstitutional.
