LEHIGH VALLEY COOPERATIVE FARMERS, INC., ET AL.
v.
UNITED STATES ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 17-18, 1962.
Decided June 4, 1962.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Willis F. Daniels argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Donn L. Snyder.
Alan S. Rosenthal argued the cause for the United States and the Secretary of Agriculture. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Orrick, Neil Brooks and Pauline B. Heller.
Briefs of amici curiae, urging affirmance, were filed by Frederic P. Lee, John A. Cardon, Leslie H. Deming, Frederick U. Conard, Jr., Thomas O. Berryhill, George M. St. Peter and Reuben Hall for the Dairymen's League Cooperative Assn., Inc., et al.; Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, Paxton Blair, Solicitor General, and Robert G. Blabey for the State of New York; Thomas Debevoise, Attorney General of Vermont, AlbertL. Coles, Attorney General of Connecticut, and Reuben Hall for the States of Vermont and Connecticut; and David D. Furman, Attorney General of New Jersey, and William L. Boyan, Deputy Attorney General, for Floyd R. Hoffman, Director of the Office of Milk Industry of New Jersey.
Briefs urging reversal were filed by Walter F. Mondale, Attorney General, and Sydney Berde, Deputy Attorney General, for the State of Minnesota, as amicus curiae.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
Petitioners, operating milk processing plants in Pennsylvania, challenge the validity of certain "compensatory payment" provisions included in milk marketing orders affecting the New York-New Jersey area, which were promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture under the authority granted him by § 8c of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, 7 U. S. C. § 608c. That section permits the Secretary...
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