Browner, et al. v. American Trucking Associations, et al.

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Our firm filed an amicus curiae brief in this case, which comes on a petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where a bare majority ruled that Section 109 of the clean air act violated Article I, Section 1, of the United States Constitution which vests legislative power in Congress. The case generated a number of opinions, the majority insisting that there were still meaningful constitutional limits on Congressional delegation of powers, and the dissent contending that the doctrine was no longer taken seriously as a limit on Congressional power.

This case provides an opportunity for the Supreme Court to breathe new life into its doctrine prohibiting the unconstitutional delegation of legislative power, which has been virtually unenforced since the early New Deal.

Link to brief