Roth Hotel Co. v. Bowles

LAWS, Judge.

Complainants are operators of three competing hotels located in the downtown commercial district of St. Paul, Minnesota. They complain to this Court by reason of the Price Administrator’s denial of a joint protest against Maximum Rent Regulation No. 54A, issued October 22, 1942, and becoming effective November 1, 1942.1 The Regulation established as the maximum rent for a room in a hotel or rooming house in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Defense-Rental Area the highest rent for each term or number of occupants for which the room was rented during the thirty-day period ending on March 1,…