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CUNARD S.S. CO. v. MELLON

Nos. 659-662, 666-670, 678, 693, 694.

262 U.S. 100 (1923)

43 S.Ct. 504

67 L.Ed. 894

CUNARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD., ET AL. v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD., v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD., v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. NETHERLANDS-AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (HOLLAND AMERICA LINE) v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. LIVERPOOL, BRAZIL & RIVER PLATE STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD., v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. UNITED STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF COPENHAGEN (SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN LINE) v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIANA v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE COMPANY v. STUART, ACTING COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS FOR THE PORT OF NEW YORK, ET AL. UNITED AMERICAN LINES, INC., ET AL. v. STUART, ACTING COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS FOR THE PORT OF NEW YORK, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 30, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George W. Wickersham for appellants in Nos. 659-662, 666-670, and 678.

Mr. Cletus Keating, with whom Mr. John M. Woolsey, Mr. J. Parker Kirlin and Mr. Ira A. Campbell were on the brief, for appellant in No. 693.

Mr. Reid L. Carr, with whom Mr. George Adams Ellis and Mr. Frederick H. Stokes were on the brief, for appellants in No. 694.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the briefs, for appellees.

Mr. Andrew Wilson and Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curiae.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are suits by steamship companies operating passenger ships between United States ports and foreign ports to enjoin threatened application to them and their ships of certain provisions of the National Prohibition Act. The defendants are officers of the United States charged with the act's enforcement. In the first ten cases the plaintiffs are foreign corporations...

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