negative orders
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 396 U.S. 162 - City of Chicago v. United States · 1969Most cited · 206 citing opinions
An order of the Commission dismissing a complaint on the merits and maintaining the status quo is an exercise of administrative function, no more and no less, than an order directing some change in status. The nature of the issues foreclosed by the Commission's action and the nature of the issues left open, so far as the reviewing power of courts is concerned, are the same. ... any distinction, as such, between 'negative' and 'affirmative' orders, as a touchstone of jurisdiction to review the Commission's orders, serves no useful purpose.
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