PAUL v. UNITED STATES

No. 19.

371 U.S. 245 (1963)

PAUL, DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Fourt, Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Lawrence E. Doxsee, Deputy Attorney General, and Roger Kent.

Solicitor General Cox argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Acting Assistant Attorney General Guilfoyle and Alan S. Rosenthal.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed for the State of Mississippi by Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General; for the State of Nevada by Charles E. Springer, Attorney General and Louis Mead Dixon, Special Deputy Attorney General; for the State of Oregon by Robert Y. Thornton, Attorney General, and Don Parker, Assistant Attorney General; for Consolidated Milk Producers of San Francisco, Inc., by Gerald D. Marcus; for the Dairy Institute of California et al. by Emil Steck, Jr., Thomas G. Baggot and Jesse E. Baskette; for Petaluma Cooperative Creamery by Joseph A. Rattigan; and for the Protected Milk Producers Association of Paramount, California, et al. by George E. Atkinson, Jr.


MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The main question in this case is whether California can enforce her minimum wholesale price regulations as respects milk sold to the United States at three military installations1 (Travis Air Force Base, Castle Air Force Base, and Oakland Army Terminal) located within California and used for strictly military consumption, for resale at federal commissaries and for consumption or...

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