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Legal Citation: 256 U.S. 135 (1921)

Appellant
Block

Appellee
Hirsh

Appellant's Claim
That the appellant should be allowed to remain in his apartment by reversing a lower court decision invalidating a rent control law as unconstitutional.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Jesse C. Adkins

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
William G. Johnson

Justices for the Court
Louis D. Brandeis, John Hessin Clarke, William Rufus Day, Oliver Wendell Holmes (writing for the Court), Mahlon Pitney

Justices Dissenting
Joseph McKenna, James Clark McReynolds, Willis Van Devanter, Edward Douglass White

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
18 April 1921

Decision
The Court reversed the earlier decision. The rent control law was constitutionally valid, and Block could remain in his apartment...