Economic Regulation
17 cases
Fletcher v. Peck
Georgia's legislature, corrupted by bribery in the Yazoo land sales, rescinded millions of acres of grants, punishing innocent pur...
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
New Hampshire's legislature sought to convert private Dartmouth College into a public university after a trusteeship dispute. The ...
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
The Charles River Bridge Company claimed its charter implicitly barred Massachusetts from authorizing a competing toll bridge, arg...
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific Railroad challenged county property tax assessments on fences along its rights of way. Before oral argument, Chie...
Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust
Congress enacted a modest peacetime income tax in 1894, and shareholders sued banks to stop payment. By a 5-4 vote, the Court held...
In re Debs
The 1894 Pullman Strike paralyzed rail traffic nationwide, and the government obtained an injunction against the American Railway ...
Northern Securities v. United States
J.P. Morgan and James Hill created the Northern Securities Company to merge the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads, eli...
Standard Oil v. United States
The government sued to dissolve John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust, which controlled roughly ninety percent of American oil ...
Lochner v. New York
New York limited bakery employees to ten hours a day and sixty hours a week, citing health hazards. Justice Peckham, for a 5-4 maj...
Muller v. Oregon
Oregon convicted a laundry owner of employing a woman more than ten hours in a day. Louis Brandeis, later a justice, filed a famou...
Nebbia v. New York
New York set minimum milk prices to combat destructive price wars during the Depression, and store owner Leo Nebbia was convicted ...
United States v. Butler
The AAA paid farmers to reduce production, funded by a tax on food processors. The Court held the scheme unconstitutional, reasoni...
Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council
The EPA defined stationary sources under the Clean Air Act with a plantwide bubble concept that eased compliance. Justice Stevens,...
Kelo v. City of New London
New London condemned Susette Kelo's little pink house as part of a private redevelopment project intended to create jobs and tax r...
West Virginia v. EPA
The Obama-era Clean Power Plan set systemwide emission caps that would shift generation from coal to cleaner sources. Chief Justic...
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Herring fishermen challenged a rule requiring them to fund at-sea monitors, and the case became the vehicle for reconsidering Chev...
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish
Elsie Parrish, a chambermaid at a hotel in Wenatchee, Washington, sued for the difference between her pay and the state minimum wa...