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Wallace v. Cutten

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Wallace v. Cutten
by Louis Brandeis
Syllabus

Wallace v. Cutten, 298 U.S. 229 (1936), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the authority of the United States Secretary of Agriculture under the Grain Futures Act (298 U.S. 229, 235) was limited to prevent continued violation of the act, not past violations.

887804Wallace v. Cutten — SyllabusLouis Brandeis

United States Supreme Court

298 U.S. 229

Wallace  v.  Cutten

 Argued: April 27, 1936. --- Decided: May 18, 1936

Messrs. Homer S.C.ummings, Atty. Gen., and Wendell Berge, of Washington, D.C., for petitioners.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 230-233 intentionally omitted]

Mr. Justice BRANDEIS 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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