Source: http://www.chanrobles.com/usa/us_supremecourt/328/46/case.php
Timestamp: 2019-05-19 12:26:38
Document Index: 663087607

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 205', '§ 925', '§ 203', '§ 923', '§ 203', '§ 204', '§ 203']

On the basis of the sale of these certificates, the Administrator, under § 205(e) of the Emergency Price Control Act, 56 Stat. 23, 34, 50 U.S.C. App. § 925(e), brought a suit for treble damages against the petitioner to recover approximately $6,800,000. That suit is still pending. In May, 1945, petitioners, invoking the authority of § 203(a), 56 Stat. 23, 31, 58 Stat. 632, 638, 50 U.S.C. App. § 923(a), sought to have the regulation on which the enforcement proceedings against them were based declared chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
The Government contends that the latter decision of the Emergency Court renders moot the judgment of that Court dismissing the complaint, which is the only judgment now before us. This Court is powerless to decide a case if its decision "cannot affect the rights of the litigants in the case before it." St. Pierre v. United States, 319 U. S. 41, 319 U. S. 42. The decision of this case may affect the rights of the litigants. The Emergency Court sustained the challenged regulation. It refused to pass on the applicability of the regulation to the petitioners. It left that question to the District Court before which the treble damage suit is pending. Had petitioners' contentions come before the Emergency Court through the protest proceedings under § 203(a), that court would have adjudicated both issues. Conklin Pen Co. v. Bowles,152 F.2d 764; Collins v. Bowles, supra. And, in the event that the Emergency Court had found the regulation inapplicable and such decision had been made before a judgment was rendered in the District Court, its ruling would be binding upon the District Court. Under § 204(e)(2)(ii), consideration of a protest under § 203(a) is not a ground for staying the chanroblesvirtualawlibrary