United States v. Butler (297 U.S. 1)

United States v. Butler
by Owen J. Roberts

Syllabus

United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the processing taxes instituted under the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act were unconstitutional. Justice Owen Roberts argued that the tax was "but a means to an unconstitutional end" that violated the Tenth Amendment. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Court Documents

Opinion of the Court

Dissenting Opinion: Stone

United States Supreme Court

297 U.S. 1

United States v. Butler

Argued: Dec. 9, 10, 1935. --- Decided: Jan 6, 1936

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Messrs. Homer S.C.ummings, Atty. Gen., and Stanley F. Reed, Sol. Gen., of Washington, D.C., for the United States.

Messrs. George Wharton Pepper, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Edward R. Hale and Bennett Sanderson, both of Boston, Mass., for respondents.

[Argument of Counsel from pages 13-53 intentionally omitted]

Mr. Justice ROBERTS 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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