Legal Opinion
Railroad Commission v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 3, 1938No. 804PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
This is an appeal from a final decree of the District Court, composed of three judges (28 U. S. C. 380), permanently enjoining an order of the Railroad Commission of the State of California.
The Commission by its order on November 13, 1933, in a proceeding instituted on its own motion, fixed rates for gas supplied by respondent. In this suit, the validity of the order was challenged as depriving respondent of property without due process of law, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. An interlocutory injunction was granted and the cause was referred…
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