Legal Opinion
North American Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 1, 1946No. 1PublishedCited by 211 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Murphy
Congress enacted the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, 49 Stat. 803, in order to correct grave abuses which it had found in the use of the holding company device in the nation’s electric and gas utility industries. This Court in Electric Bond & Share Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission, 303 U. S. 419, held constitutional the various provisions of the Act relating to the registration of holding companies as therein defined. In this case we are called upon to determine the constitutionality of §11 (b) (1) of the Act, authorizing the Securities and Exchange Commission to act to…
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