United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 297U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936 - Courts |
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48 Stat affirmed agricultural Agricultural Adjustment Act Alabama Alabama Power Company amici curiae appellees applied Argument assessment Assn Attorney Authority bankruptcy bond brief carrier Circuit Court Circuit denied claim clause Comm'n commerce clause competition Congress Constitution contract Corp corporation Court of Appeals dealers decision decree defendants delivered the opinion District Court due process effect electric February February 17 federal filed Fourteenth Amendment Government granted held Helvering income infringement Insurance interstate commerce Interstate Commerce Commission invalid judgment jurisdiction JUSTICE legislative March March 30 ment Messrs North Dakota Ohio operation patent payment Petition for writ petitioner plaintiff Power Company proceedings provisions purpose question railroad railway rates reason refiners regulation respondent revenue Section Solicitor General Reed statute stockholders sugar suit supra Supreme Court Tennessee Tennessee Valley Authority tion trade trial court Trust United validity Wilson Dam writ of certiorari
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Page 134 - Congress — but the power to adopt regulations to carry into effect the will of Congress as expressed by the statute. A regulation which does not do this, but operates to create a rule out of harmony with the statute, is a mere nullity.
Page 54 - To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Page 454 - ... so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment, earn an aggregate annual net railway operating income equal, as nearly as may be, to a fair return upon the aggregate value of the railway property of such carriers held for and used in the service of transportation...
Page 79 - The other is that while unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint.
Page 434 - Be it enacted ~by the Senate and House of Representatives of the united States of America in Congress assembled, That all goods, wares and merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined, wholly or in part, by convicts or prisoners...
Page 509 - ... hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction within the district in which such offense was committed, be subject for each offense to a fine of not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 187 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states,, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but
Page 354 - If any act of congress, or of the legislature of a State, violates those constitutional provisions, it is unquestionably void; though, I admit, that as the authority to declare it void is of a delicate and awful nature, the court will never resort to that authority, but in a clear and urgent case.
Page 375 - ... owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial trial, and shall be subject to the provisions and entitled to the benefits of this Act.
Page 56 - The processing tax shall be at such rate as equals the difference between the current average farm price for the commodity and the fair exchange value...