Opinion ID: 225489
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Heading: Validity of Portal to Portal Act.

Text: 7 The challenges to validity of the Act are (1) because an invasion of Judicial powers, and (2) because violative of the Fifth Amendment. The latter challenge is based upon two contentions, namely, that the Act denies due process because it is arbitrary, unreasonable, capricious and oppressive; and that it deprives appellant of property without due process. 8 The validity of the Act has been determined by many decisions in the Courts of Appeals and in the District Courts. 2 The Courts of Appeals include the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Circuits. 3 Certiorari has been denied repeatedly. 3 In all instances, the validity of the Act has been upheld, although attacked on all of the grounds presented here as well as others. As stated by Chief Judge Magruder in the Manosky case, 199 F.2d at page 532, '    it may now be taken as settled that Sec. 2(a) is constitutional.' 4 9 In this state of the decisions, it is pointless to do more than say we have examined carefully the issues presented here, the authorities cited by appellant, and the herein cited Courts of Appeals decisions, and that we are in agreement with the reasonings in these Court of Appeals cases in our determination that the Act is impervious to these attacks of appellant. 10