Clause of the oil regulation section authorizing the President "to prohibit the transportation in interstate * * * commerce of petroleum * * * produced or withdrawn from storage in excess of the amount permitted * * * by any State law * * *" and prescribing a penalty for violation of orders issued thereunder, held invalid as a grant of legislative power.
Panama Refining Co. et al. v. Ryan et al. and Amazon Petroleum Corp., et al. v. Ryan et al., 293 U.S. 388 (January 7, 1935).
65. Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 307, sec. 13).
Temporary reduction of 15 percent in retired pay of "judges (whose compensation, prior to retirement or resignation, could not, under the Constitution, have been diminished)", as applied to circuit or district judges retired from active service, but still subject to perform judicial duties under the act of March 1, 1929 (45 Stat. 1422), held a violation of the guaranty of judges' salaries under article III, section 1.
Booth v. United States (together with Amidon v. United States), 291 U.S. 339 (February 5, 1934).
66. Act of April 27, 1934 (48 Stat. 646, sec. 6), amending section 5 (i) of Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933.
Provision for conversion of State building and loan associations into federal associations, upon vote of 51 percent of the votes cast at a meeting of stockholders called to consider such action, held an encroachment on reserved powers of State.
Hopkins Federal Savings & Loan Association v. Cleary, 296 U.S. 315 (December 9, 1935).
67. Act of May 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 798, ch. 345).
Provision for readjustment of municipal indebtedness, held invalid, though "adequately related" to the bankruptcy power, as an interference with State sovereignty.