Legal Opinion
Board of Trade of Chicago v. Olsen
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 16, 1923No. 701PublishedCited by 221 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
Appellants contend that the decision of this Court in Hill v. Wallace, 259 U. S. 44, is conclusive against the constitutionality of the Grain Futures Act. Indeed in their bill they, pleaded the judgment in that case as res judicata in this, as to its invalidity. The act whose constitutionality was in question in Hill v. Wallace was the Future Trading Act (c. 86, 42 Stat. 187). It was an effort by Congress, through taxing at a prohibitive rate sales of 'grain, for future delivery, to regulate such sales on boards of trade by exempting them from the tax if they would comply with the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Board of Trade of Chicago v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Swift & Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Stafford v. WallaceSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Hill v. WallaceSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
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3Cited by221 opinions
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- Wickard v. FilburnSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- United States v. DarbySupreme Court of the United States · 1941
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