Allen, Chairman, Twelfth Region Wage Stabilization Board, et al. v. Grand Central Aircraft Co. (347 U.S. 535)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided May 24, 1954 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 347 U.S. 535 · 74 S. Ct. 745
- Docket
- No. 450
- Argued
- March 11, 1954
- Decided
- May 24, 1954
- Term
- October Term 1953
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Burton
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Chief Justice Warren, Justice Black, Justice Douglas, Justice Clark, Justice Frankfurter, Justice Burton (wrote), Justice Reed, Justice Minton, Justice R. H. Jackson
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Burton delivered the opinion of the Court. The principal question for decision is whether the Defense Production Act of 1950 authorized the President to apply administrative action to the enforcement of its wage stabilization provisions. For the reasons hereafter stated, we decide that it did. There is here also the question whether such administrative enforcement may be applied even after the restrictions placed on wages under Title IV of the Act have expired, provided the enforcement is limited to violations antedating such expiration. Our answer is in the affirmative. Appellee further claims that the pending administrative proceeding should be enjoined because the mere conduct of that proceeding might cause it irreparable damage. For the reasons given below, we find that argument untenable. ]Appellee, Grand Central Aircraft Company, is a California corporation which was engaged, in 1951, in the production and repair of aircraft equipment in Glendale, California, and Tucson, Arizona. November 4, 1952, the Wage Stabilization Board filed a complaint with the National Enforcement Commission alleging in substance that appellee, between January 26, 1951, and January 1, 1952, had paid wage increases in violation of an order freezing wages at the levels of January 25, 1951. Those payments consisted of wages totaling about $5,500,000, including about $750,000 alleged to…
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