advisory opinion
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 333 U.S. 103 - Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · 1948Most cited · 1,428 citing opinions
To revise or review an administrative decision, which has only the force of a recommendation to the President, would be to render an advisory opinion in its most obnoxious form—advice that the President has not asked, tendered at the demand of a private litigant, on a subject concededly within the President's exclusive, ultimate control.
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