Yakus v. United States

*418Opinion of the Court by

Mb. Chief Justice Stone,

announced by Mr. Justice Roberts.

The questions for our decision are: (1) Whether the Emergency Price Control Act of January 30,1942, 56 Stat. 23, 50 U. S. C. App. Supp. II, §§ 901 et seq., as amended by the Inflation Control Act of October 2, 1942, 56 Stat. 765, 50 U. S. C. App. Supp. II, §§ 961 et seq., involves an unconstitutional delegation to the Price Administrator of the legislative power of Congress to control prices; (2) whether § 204 (d) of the Act was intended to preclude consideration by a district court of the validity of a maximum…