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Legal Citation: 304 U.S. 144 (1938)

Petitioner
United States

Respondent
Carolene Products Company

Petitioner's Claim
That congressional legislation outlawing the shipment of adulterated milk was a constitutionally permissible regulation of interstate commerce.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
Homer S. Cummings, Brien McMahon

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
George N. Murdock

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, Louis D. Brandeis, Pierce Butler, Charles Evans Hughes, Owen Josephus Roberts, Harlan Fiske Stone (writing for the Court)

Justices Dissenting
James Clark McReynolds (Benjamin N. Cardozo and Stanley Forman Reed did not participate)

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
25 April 1938

Decision
Congressional regulation of "filled milk" was held to be...