Legal Opinion
Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 30, 1934No. Nos. 440, 548PublishedCited by 284 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
This case comes here for the second time. It presents the question of the validity under the Fourteenth Amendment of rates prescribed by the Illinois Commerce Commission for telephone service in the City of Chicago. The Commission’s order, made on August 16, 1923, to be effective October 1, 1923, reduced rates applicable to a large part of the intrastate service of the appellee, Illinois Bell Telephone Company.1 In this suit, brought by that Company in September, 1923, an interlocutory injunction was granted upon the condition that if the injunction were dissolved the Company should refund…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- State ex rel. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission of MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. v. Railroad CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Smith v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1930
- United Rs. & Elec. Co. of Baltimore v. WestSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
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3Cited by284 opinions
- Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
- St. Joseph Stock Yards Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Keating v. City of MiamiCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2010
- Electrical Fittings Corp. v. ThomasSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
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