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- Title: New Jersey v. Sargent
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 04, 1926
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a bill in equity brought in this Court by the State of New Jersey against the Attorney General of the United States and the members of the Federal Power Commission, all alleged to be citizens of other States, to obtain a judicial declaration that certain parts of the Act of June 10, 1920, called the Federal Water Power Act, c. 285, 41 Stat. 1063, are unconstitutional in so far as they relate to waters within or bordering on that State, and to enjoin the defendants from taking any steps towards applying or enforcing them in respect of those waters. The defendants respond with a motion to dismiss on the grounds, among others, that the bill does not present a case or controversy appropriate for the exertion of judicial power but only an abstract question respecting the relative authority of Congress and the State in dealing with such waters. If this be a proper characterization of the bill the motion to dismiss must prevail, as a reference to prior decisions will show.