Majority
p. 985Argued February 20, 1947; decided April 17, 1947.
Philip B. Fleming, as Temporary Controls Administrator Substituted for Paul Porter, Price Administrator of the Office of Price Administration, Respondent, v. William Russell, Doing Business as Long Island Potato Exchange, Appellant.
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Otho S. Bowling for appellant.
Arthur G. Silverman, Kenneth V. Fisher, William E. Bemy, David London and Albert M. Dreyer for respondent.
The judgment of the Appellate Division must be affirmed upon the authority of Testa v. Katt ( 330 U. S. 386 ). In view of this decision it was not necessary to decide whether the statute was penal in the public international, private international or any other sense, because the courts of a State
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have no discretion under the supremacy clause of the Federal Constitution to decline to entertain a suit for a penalty imposed by a Federal statute unless the Congress has limited the remedy to the Federal courts.
The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
Loughran, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Thacheb, Dye and Ftjld, JJ., concur.
Judgment affirmed.
Cases cited
- Testa v. Katt 330 U. S. 386 p. 986