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Legal Citation: 290 U.S. 398 (1934)

Appellant
Home Building & Loan Association

Appellee
John H. Blaisdell

Appellant's Claim
That the 1933 Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium Law, intended to avert mortgage foreclosures during the Great Depression, violated the Contract Clause of Article I of the Constitution, which bars state impairment of the obligations of contracts.

Chief Lawyers for Appellant
Karl H. Covell, Alfred W. Bowen

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
Harry H. Peterson, William S. Ervin

Justices for the Court
Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Charles Evans Hughes (writing for the Court), Owen Josephus Roberts, Harlan Fiske Stone

Justices Dissenting
Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
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