Legal Opinion
Swift & Company v. Wickham
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 10, 1964PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The complaint alleged that § 193 of the Agriculture and Markets Law and action threatened by the Commissioner under it violated the plaintiffs’ rights under the commerce and supremacy clauses of the Federal Constitution and the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiffs requested that a three-judge court be called to hear and determine the case pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2281. Believing that the case might be within that section, Judge Croake, to whom the application came, caused such a court to be assembled as provided in 28 U.S.C. § 2284. For reasons that…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. PaulSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona Ex Rel. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Healy v. RattaSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
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3Cited by50 opinions
- Abbott Laboratories v. GardnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Jones v. Rath Packing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Swift & Co. v. WickhamSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Ciba-Geigy Corporation v. U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1986
- Vicente Galvan and Marcelino Torres v. Louis L. Levine, Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York,defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
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