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Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on Constitutional Questions: 1914–1917. II1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2013
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The decisions of the Supreme Court during the October terms of 1914, 1915, and 1916, indicate on the whole a more tolerant attitude towards the judgment of state legislatures on questions of the police power than one would be apt to infer from the criticisms called forth by the few cases in which laws were declared invalid. The cases on these questions gave rise to more diversity of opinion among the judges than did those arising under the commerce clause. In most of the important cases there was dissent, and several were decided by a vote of five to four. Chief Justice White, and Justices Van Devanter and McReynolds were opposed to the Oregon ten-hour law, the Washington compensation law and the Washington employment agency law; while Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Clarke were in favor of all three. On certain crucial questions these six justices seem quite likely to counteract each other, and leave the balance of power with Justices McKenna, Day and Pitney. Justices Pitney and Day were in favor of the ten-hour law and the compensation law and opposed to the employment agency law. Mr. Justice McKenna was in favor of the ten-hour law and the employment agency law and opposed to the compensation law. In the Oregon Minimum Wage Case, the court was divided four to four, Mr. Justice Brandeis not sitting.
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39 Crane v. Johnson, (1917) 244 U. S. 339.
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53 It was also contended that the statute was invalid because it did not apply to hotels having less than fifty rooms, and therefore discriminated against larger hotels, but the contention was not sustained. For a case in which a provision of the Louisiana anti-trust law was declared invalid because so framed as to apply exclusively to the American Sugar Refining Co., see McFarland v. American Sugar Refining Co., (1916) 241 U. S. 79. The statute also created certain presumptions from paying more for sugar in other states than in Louisiana, and from closing or keeping idle a factory more than a year. The opinion of the court indicates that these presumptions would have been held vicious, even if the statute had not been invalid because of its discriminatory features. See 1 Southern Law Quarterly 279.
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92 For another case in which a special assessment was sustained, see Houck v. Little River Drainage District, (1915) 239 U. S. 254, which held that a maximum tax of 25 cents an acre could be imposed upon lands within a drainage district to defray preliminary expenses, even though some of the owners assessed may not be benefited by the completed drainage plans.
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97 (1914) 237 U. S. 135.
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99 (1917) 244 U. S. 522.
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113 (1915) 239 U. S. 57.
114 Ramapo Water Co. v. New York, (1915) 236 U. S. 579, arose out of the same project, from which the complainant sought to restrain the city on the ground that it interfered with its vested rights acquired by a charter giving it power to store and supply water. The company had proceeded no further under its charter than to file maps and acquire options on some lands in the district to be taken for the municipal reservoir. The Supreme Court disposed of the contention by saying that in the absence of a decision on the point from the state court it would refuse to believe that the complainant had acquired any vested rights by what it had done under its charter.
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