Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · ¶110

The Solicitor General, acknowledging that Congress has never authorized the seizure here, says practice of prior Presidents has authorized it. He seeks color of legality from claimed executive precedents, chief of which is President Roosevelt’s seizure on June 9, 1941, of the California plant of the North American Aviation Company. Its superficial similarities with the present case, upon analysis, yield to distinctions so decisive that it cannot be regarded as even a precedent, much less an authority for the present seizure.

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U. S. Reports, volume 343, at 579 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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