272 U.S.
Volume 272 — United States Reports
54 opinions
- 272 U.S. 1United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
Held: That- a disposition of enemy patents, made at private sale to a corporation organized for the purposes of taking' over and holding them as a trustee for American industries affected, of eliminating hostile alien interests and advancing, chemical and allied industries in the United States through licenses .under the patents free to the United States and upon equal terms to others, was within, the authority granted ’…
- 272 U.S. 21State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas (1926)9–0Supreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 50International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 52Myers v. United States (1926)Held federal statute unconstitutionalSupreme Court of the United States
Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926), was a United States Supreme Court decision ruling that the President's exclusive power to remove executive branch officials is vested in the Office of the Presidency by Article Two of the United States Constitution, and the Take Care Clause generally limits Congress from restricting this power. Myers was the first Supreme Court case to invalidate a federal law for violating the separation of powers by allowing Congress to "participate in the exercise of [the removal power]". The Taft Court's broad view of the President's "constitutional duty of seeing that the laws be faithfully executed" was limited in Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) to "purely executive" offices. In Seila Law LLC v.
- 272 U.S. 295Palmetto Fire Ins Co v. Conn Chrysler Sales CorporationAffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 306Dorchy v. State of Kansas (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 312Hebert v. State of Louisiana (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 317Moore v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. (1926)Petition denied / appeal dismissedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 321United States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
Held: lawful to make non-beverage liquor; United States may elect to proceed under § 3450 or § 26. United States v. Haynes (S. D. Fla., 1920), 268 Fed. 1003 . Held, § 26 covers every case of illegal transportation of liquor, and § 3450 inconsistent with it. Affirmed, 1921, by C. C. A., 5th Cir., 274 Fed. 926 .
- 272 U.S. 351Yankton Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
Held: that the second of the alternative stipulations was enforceable even if the first was not. P. 356. 61 Ct. Cls. 40, reversed. Certiorari ( 270 U. S. 637 ), to review a judgment of the Court of Claims rejecting the claim of the above, named tribe of Indians for compensation'for a tract of land in Minnesota embracing the Red Pipe Stone Quarries, which had been appropriated by the United States. See also, 53 Ct.
- 272 U.S. 359Anderson v. Shipowners Ass'n (1926)Reversed and remandedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 365Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926), commonly known as Euclid v. Ambler, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court found that local ordinance-style zoning was a valid exercise of the police power. It was the first significant case regarding the relatively new practice of zoning, and bolstered zoning in the United States and influenced other countries.
- 272 U.S. 398State of Michigan v. State of Wisconsin (1926)9–0Supreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 400McCardle v. Indianapolis Water Co. (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 425Graves v. State of Minnesota (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 429I. T. S. Rubber Co. v. Essex Rubber Co. (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 445Southern Pac Co v. United StatesAffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 448Brasfield v. United States (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 451Hudson v. United States (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 457United States v. New York Cent R Co (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 465Van Oster v. State of Kansas (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 469Hughes Bros Timber Co v. State of Minnesota (1926)Held state or territorial law unconstitutionalSupreme Court of the United States
Held: that the logs had begun their continuous interstate journey with the beginning of their drive down the river, not with their subsequent transfer to the vessels. Pp. 473, 475. 3.
- 272 U.S. 476United States v. General Electric Co. (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
United States v. General Electric Co., 272 U.S. 476 (1926), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court holding (per Chief Justice Taft) that a patentee who has granted a single license to a competitor to manufacture the patented product may lawfully fix the price at which the licensee may sell the product.
- 272 U.S. 494Hanover Fire Ins Co v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 517Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v. Humphrey (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 525Massachusetts State Grange v. Benton (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 530Dodge v. United States (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 533Luckenbach Co v. United States (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. United States, 272 U.S. 533 (1926), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the statute limiting all appeals of cases from the United States Court of Claims to questions of law was constitutional.
- 272 U.S. 542Salinger v. United States (1926)Vacated and remandedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 549United States v. Brims (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 554Federal Trade Commission v. Western Meat Co. (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
Held: When a corporation -has unlawfully acquired all the stock of a competitor, but not its plant or other property, the order properly directs it to divest itself of the stock ownership in such wise as will restore competition, and not leave the corporation in control of the competitor’s property, as .would happen if it first used the stock to secure such control, and then divested itself of the stock by dissolving the…
- 272 U.S. 564Port Gardner Inv Co v. United States (1926)Certification to/from lower courtSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 567Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Doughton (1926)Held state or territorial law unconstitutionalSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 576Ottinger v. Consolidated Gas Co. (1926)Held state or territorial law unconstitutionalSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 579Ottinger v. Brooklyn Union Gas Co. (1926)Held state or territorial law unconstitutionalSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 581Lambert v. Yellowley (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
Lambert v. Yellowley, 272 U.S. 581 (1926), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that reaffirmed the National Prohibition Act's limitation on the dispensation of alcoholic medicines. The five-to-four decision, written by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, affirmed the dismissal of a suit in which New York City physician Samuel Lambert sought to prevent Edward Yellowley, the acting federal prohibition director, from enforcing the Prohibition Act so as to preclude him from prescribing alcoholic medicines.
- 272 U.S. 605Napier v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
Napier v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., 272 U.S. 605 (1926), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Boiler Inspection Act has so occupied the field of regulating locomotive equipment on interstate highways that state legislation requiring cab curtains and automatic firebox doors is precluded and must be addressed by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
- 272 U.S. 613Duffy v. Mutual Ben Life Ins CoAffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 620Fasulo v. United States (1926)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 630Murphy v. United States (1926)Certification to/from lower courtSupreme Court of the United States
Held: The purpose of the latter section is preventive; abatement of the nuisance and the injunction are not an additional penalty. 2. Hence, acquittal in a prosecution under § 21, is not a bar to proceedings under § 22. P. 831. Response to questions certified by the Circuit Court of Appeals, upon review of a decree abating a nuisance and closing the place in which it was maintained. ' Messrs.
- 272 U.S. 633United States v. McElvain (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
Held: The purpose of the proviso is to carve out a special class of cases, and it must be confined, by a strict construction, to the cases clearly within its purpose. P. 639. (2) If the proviso relates to any conspiracies under Crim. Code § 37, it is limited to those to commit the substantive offenses which it covers. It does not apply to a conspiracy to defraud the United States in respect of internal revenue. P. 639.
- 272 U.S. 640Wright v. Ynchausti & Co. (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 652United States v. Storrs (1926)Petition denied / appeal dismissedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 655Dysart v. United States (1926)Reversed and remandedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 658Virginian Ry Co v. United States (1926)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 675Eastern Transp Co v. United StatesReversed and remandedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 693Postum Cereal Co. v. California Fig Nut Co. (1927)Petition denied / appeal dismissedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 701Los Angeles Brush Mfg Corporation v. James (1927)Petition denied / appeal dismissedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 709Emmons Coal Mining Co v. Norfolk & W Ry CoAffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 713Miller v. City of Milwaukee (1927)Held state or territorial law unconstitutionalSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 718The Willdomino v. Citro Chemical Co of America the WilldominoSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 728Garland's Heirs v. Choctaw Nation Pitchlynn (1927)AffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 731De La Mettrie v. James KeaneAffirmedSupreme Court of the United States
- 272 U.S. 734United States v. Gettinger & Pomerantz (1927)ReversedSupreme Court of the United States