Carolene Products Co. v. United States

The limited writ of certiorari in this case was granted to review petitioners’ conviction, affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals, for a violation of the Filled Milk Act. The Court was moved to allow the petition in order to examine the contentions that the accused articles of food cannot, under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, be banned from commerce when these compounds are nutritionally sufficient and not “in imitation or semblance” of milk or any milk product within the meaning of the statute and are not sold as milk or a milk product.

The contentions…