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Constitutional Law - Price Fixing - Emergency Legislation, Maurice S. Culp
Constitutional Law - Price Fixing - Emergency Legislation, Maurice S. Culp
Michigan Law Review
The way of governmental price regulation has been hard, and such regulation has been carefully confined to businesses clothed with a "public interest." An exception has been recognized where an "emergency" occurs in a business outside of the strict utility field. However, the apparent disruption of the competitive system during the present depression has been productive of legislation seeking to overcome the evils of that system. In People v. Nebbia, the Court of Appeals of New York sustained a recent act of the legislature creating a milk control Board and authorizing the fixing of milk prices for a 12-month …