Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States

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Yakus v. United States is a 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld wartime price controls and affirmed broad congressional delegation of authority to administrative agencies.

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Label	Occurrences
Yakus v. United States	3
Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States canonical	1
Yakus v. United States (1944)	1
Yakus v. United States, 321 U.S. 414 (1944)	1

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Target entity: Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States
Context triple: [Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, subjectOf, Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States]

A. Reynolds v. United States
Reynolds v. United States is an 1879 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the distinction between protected religious belief and regulable religiously motivated conduct, holding that the Free Exercise Clause does not excuse individuals from compliance with otherwise valid criminal laws such as those banning polygamy.
B. Katz v. United States
Katz v. United States is a landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that redefined Fourth Amendment protections by establishing that the amendment safeguards people’s reasonable expectations of privacy, not just physical places.
C. Abrams v. United States
Abrams v. United States was a 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the conviction of antiwar activists under federal law and is best known for Justice Holmes’s famous dissent articulating the “marketplace of ideas” concept in free speech jurisprudence.
D. Carpenter v. United States
Carpenter v. United States is a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the government generally must obtain a warrant to access historical cell phone location records under the Fourth Amendment.
E. Dennis v. United States
Dennis v. United States is a landmark 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the convictions of Communist Party leaders under the Smith Act, significantly shaping First Amendment jurisprudence on speech advocating the overthrow of the government.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States
Target entity description: Yakus v. United States is a 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld wartime price controls and affirmed broad congressional delegation of authority to administrative agencies.

A. Reynolds v. United States
Reynolds v. United States is an 1879 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the distinction between protected religious belief and regulable religiously motivated conduct, holding that the Free Exercise Clause does not excuse individuals from compliance with otherwise valid criminal laws such as those banning polygamy.
B. Katz v. United States
Katz v. United States is a landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that redefined Fourth Amendment protections by establishing that the amendment safeguards people’s reasonable expectations of privacy, not just physical places.
C. Abrams v. United States
Abrams v. United States was a 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the conviction of antiwar activists under federal law and is best known for Justice Holmes’s famous dissent articulating the “marketplace of ideas” concept in free speech jurisprudence.
D. Carpenter v. United States
Carpenter v. United States is a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the government generally must obtain a warrant to access historical cell phone location records under the Fourth Amendment.
E. Dennis v. United States
Dennis v. United States is a landmark 1951 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the convictions of Communist Party leaders under the Smith Act, significantly shaping First Amendment jurisprudence on speech advocating the overthrow of the government.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Supreme Court case ⓘ administrative law case ⓘ federal criminal case ⓘ nondelegation doctrine case ⓘ separation of powers case ⓘ
hasAreaOfLaw	administrative law ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ criminal law ⓘ
hasChiefJustice	Harlan F. Stone ⓘ linked to: Justice Harlan F. Stone
hasCitation	321 U.S. 414 ⓘ
hasContext	World War II ⓘ
hasCountry	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
hasCourt	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
hasDecisionDate	1944 ⓘ
hasDissentingJustice	Frank Murphy ⓘ Owen J. Roberts ⓘ linked to: Owen Josephus Roberts Wiley B. Rutledge ⓘ linked to: Justice Wiley B. Rutledge
hasDoctrine	intelligible principle test ⓘ nondelegation doctrine ⓘ
hasEra	New Deal and World War II era Supreme Court jurisprudence ⓘ
hasFullCitation	Yakus v. United States, 321 U.S. 414 (1944) ⓘ linked to: Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States
hasLegalIssue	constitutionality of wartime price controls ⓘ due process in administrative review of regulations ⓘ scope of congressional delegation of legislative power ⓘ
hasMajorityOpinionAuthor	Harlan F. Stone ⓘ linked to: Justice Harlan F. Stone
hasPetitioner	Yakus ⓘ
hasPrecedentStatus	binding precedent on federal delegation of power ⓘ
hasRelatedConcept	administrative review procedures ⓘ price control ⓘ wartime emergency powers ⓘ
hasRespondent	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
hasSignificance	affirmed broad congressional power to delegate regulatory authority during wartime ⓘ illustrates judicial deference to administrative agencies in economic regulation ⓘ is a leading case on the nondelegation doctrine ⓘ limited the ability of criminal defendants to collaterally attack underlying regulations ⓘ
hasStatuteInvolved	Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 ⓘ
held	Congress could delegate broad authority to an administrative agency with an intelligible principle ⓘ criminal prosecutions could be based on regulations issued by the Price Administrator ⓘ limiting challenges to regulations to a special review procedure did not violate due process ⓘ the statutory standard for price control was sufficiently definite to satisfy the nondelegation doctrine ⓘ wartime price controls under the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 were constitutional ⓘ
involvedAgency	Office of Price Administration ⓘ
involvedOfficial	Price Administrator ⓘ
upheld	Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 ⓘ broad congressional delegation of authority to administrative agencies ⓘ criminal convictions for violating maximum price regulations ⓘ

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