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Supreme Court· 1/15/1962

United States v. Drum

Citations

  • 368 U.S. 370
  • 82 S. Ct. 408
  • 7 L. Ed. 2d 360
  • 1962 U.S. LEXIS 2145

How courts have described this case

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  • emphasizing use of totalities and noting that indicia are “instruments of decision, not touchstones”; “Commission allowably dealt with this novel situation as an integral and unique problem in judgment, rather than simply as an exercise in counting commonplaces”
  • Commission's current resolution of problem does not violate coherence of body of administrative and judicial precedents so far developed in this area
  • formulation of private carriage in Drum is recent instance of Commission's developing technique of decision
  • Commission’s belief that financial risks are a significant burden of transportation is well within range of responsibility assigned to Commission
  • a“civil case brought to set aside the Commission’s cease and desist order

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Judges: Brennan, Douglas, Harlan, Black, Whittaker

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