Legal Opinion
In re Slaughter
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided March 7, 1935PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ATWELL, District Judge.
On October 12, 1935, this court held that the 1935 amendment to the FrazierLenike Act (11 U.S.C.A. § 203) was constitutional. 1 realized then and I realize now that the act went to the very verge of constitutional authority, if, in truth, it was not outside thereof. In re Slaughter (D.C.) 12 F.Supp. 206. But the appropriate reluctance with which a trial court approaches a declaration of unconstitu*894tionality as to an act of Congress, causes us to seek diligently — as we should, of course — for sustaining reasons. I thought that the August 28, 1935, amendment could pass…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Home Building & Loan Assn. v. BlaisdellSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- In Re RahrerSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Hamilton v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Lafayette Life Ins. v. LowmonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1935
- In Re SlaughterDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1935
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- In Re DavisDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1936
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- In re EricksonDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1936