Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co.

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that a state is constitutionally permitted to vest legislative and judicial powers in the same body
• distinguishing between legislative and adjudicative functions; legislative-type proceedings of state administrative agency not entitled to res judicata effect
• distinguishing between legislative and adjudicative functions; legislative-type proceedings of state administrative agency not entitled to res judicata effect
• assuming, arguendo, that State Corporation Commission could be a court if its action had been judicial in nature, in which event it \would be protected from interference on the part of courts of the United States\
• assuming, arguendo, that State Corporation Commission could be a court if its action had been judicial in nature, in which event it “would be protected from interference on the part of courts of the United States”
• “The establishment of a rate is the making of a rule for the future, and therefore is an act legislative, not judicial, in kind.”

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