Legal Opinion
Vinson v. Washington Gas Light Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 27, 1944No. 396PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Roberts
Certiorari was granted in this case, at the instance of the Director of Economic Stablization and the Administrator, Office of Price Administration, of the United States, to review a rate order of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia. The application and effect of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942,1 and the Act of October 2, 1942, 2 are involved.
The petitioners, who were intervenors before the Commission, appealed from its order to the District Court of the District of Columbia, which set aside the order as arbitrary and illegal.3 The Court of Appeals for the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Davies Warehouse Co. v. BowlesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- City of Yonkers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Washington Gas Light Co. v. ByrnesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1943
- Byrnes v. FlanaganDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1943
3Cited by78 opinions
- Johnson v. Board of Regents of the University of GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2001
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. City of Jersey CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Washington Gas Light Co. v. Baker. Public Utilities Commission of District of Columbia v. BakerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951
- Jerome Thomas Lamprecht v. Federal Communications Commission, Barbara Driscoll Marmet and Dragon Communications, Inc., IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1992
- ICC v. Jersey CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1944
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