United States v. Public Utilities Commission

MILLER, Associate Justice.

The United States is seeking, in this case, to establish its right to appeal — as a person or corporation affected — from an order of one of its own lesser creatures, an administrative agency. In doing so, it faces a handicap which has been built up, largely at its own insistence, in many decisions which have denied such rights 1 to private persons and corporations, or which have so severely limited them as to prevent decision on the merits; 2 sometimes even to the extent of making impossible a consummation of legislative policy and an achievement of Congressional…