Bi-Metallic Investment Company v. State Board of Equalization

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Bi-Metallic Investment Company v. State Board of Equalization
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Bi-Metallic Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization, 239 U.S. 441 (1915), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that due process protections only attach to administrative activities in which a small number of people are concerned, who are exceptionally affected by the act, in each case upon individual grounds. By contrast, rule-making or quasi-legislative activities that affect a large number of people without regard to the facts of individual cases do not implicate due process protections. It is an important case in American administrative law.

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United States Supreme Court

239 U.S. 441

Bi-Metallic Investment Company v. State Board of Equalization

Argued: December 7 and 8, 1915. --- Decided: December 20, 1915

Mr. Horace Phelps for plaintiff in error.

[Argument of Counsel from page 442 intentionally omitted]

Mr. Fred Farrar, Attorney General of Colorado, and Messrs. Norton Montgomery, James A. Marsh, and George Q. Richmond for defendants in error.

Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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