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Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the District Court of a suit arising under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the validity of an ordinance of'Los Angeles, California, establishing telephone, rates, are stated in the opinion. The Fourteenth Amendment is directed against action by the States themselves and the State of California has? taken no action.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the District Court of a suit arising under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the validity of an ordinance of'Los Angeles, California, establishing telephone, rates, are stated in the opinion. The Fourteenth Amendment is directed against action by the States themselves and the State of California has? taken no action. The city of Los Angeles is an agent of the State of California with limited powers, which do not include authority to…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
The appellant, a California corporation furnishing telephone service in the city of Los Angeles, sued the city and certain of its officials to prevent the putting into effect of a city ordinance establishing telephone rates for the year commencing July 1, 1911.
It was alleged, that by the constitution and laws of the. State the city was given a right to fix telephone rates and had passed the assailed ordinance in the exercise of the general authority thus conferred. . It was charged that the rates fixed wére so unreasonably low that their enforcement would bring about the confiscation of the…
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