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Legal Citation: 297 U.S. 1 (1936)

Petitioner
United States

Respondent
William H. Butler

Petitioner's Claim
That the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, which provided for payments to farmers for reduced production from taxes imposed on commodities producers, was a valid exercise of Congress's taxing and spending powers.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
Homer S. Cummings, U.S. Attorney General; Stanley F. Reed, U.S. Solicitor General

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
Edward R. Hale, Bennett Sanderson

Justices for the Court
Pierce Butler, Charles Evans Hughes, James Clark McReynolds, Owen Josephus Roberts (writing for the Court), George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter

Justices Dissenting
Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Harlan Fiske Stone

Place
Washington, D.C.

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