Whitaker v. United State of America

How courts have described this case

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• finding that predecessor statute “provided for compensation — not punishment”
• noting that “the act provided for compensation, not punishment”
• noting that 'the act provided for compensation, not punishment'
• a plaintiff seeking to enforce a reparation order of the ICC can recover the excess, “not as damages but as overcharge”
• practice of railroad of granting certain shippers rebates and allowances was illegal on its face and required the court only to ascertain if the violation had in fact occurred
• in interpreting enacted provisions, it is appropriate to review their legislative history including provisions earlier rejected

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).