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· 10/12/1931

Freeman--Hampton Oil Corp. v. Commissioner

Citations

  • 24 B.T.A. 319
  • 1931 BTA LEXIS 1657

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the title “[s]hall it be a gross misdemeanor to capture an animal with certain body-gripping traps, or to poison an animal with sodium fluoroacetate or sodium cyanide” was general
  • determining that a ban on trapping animals with certain body-gripping traps was rationally related or \germane to\ a ban on killing animals with certain pesticides
  • determining that a ban on trapping animals with certain body-gripping traps was rationally related or “germane to” a ban on killing animals with certain pesticides
  • explaining that a new enactment did not “alter preexisting rights or duties to an impermissible degree”
  • holding title “Shall it be a gross misdemeanor to capture an animal with certain body-gripping traps, or to poison an animal with sodium' fluoroacetate or sodium cyanide?” was a general title
  • discussing “general” and “specific” titles and reaffirming that “the ‘rational unity’ analysis” applies to legislation bearing a “general” title

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Judges: Steenhagen

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