confiscatory rate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 206 U.S. 1 - Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. North Carolina Corporation Commission · 1907Most cited · 416 citing opinions
Smyth v. Ames
A state enactment, or regulations made under the authority of a state enactment, establishing rates for the transportation of persons or property by railroad that will not admit of the carrier earning such compensation as, under all the circumstances, is just to it and to the public, would deprive such carrier of its property without due process of law, and deny to it the equal protection of the laws, and would, therefore, be repugnant to the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
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