...commerce which, in the judgment of Congress, may be necessary or expedient for the exercise of this power. Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 59 US (18 How.) 421, 15 L. Ed. 435; Erie Railroad Company v. New York, 233 US 671, 34 Sup. Ct. 756, 58 L. Ed. 1149, 52 LRA...

...within the discretion of Congress and not reviewable by any court for impolicy or abuse. (State of Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 59 US ; 18 How. 421, 439.) While it is well settled that Congress can not under the Constitution, unaided by special constitutional...

...Otherwise Congress and two States would possess the power to modify and alter the Constitution itself" (Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 59 US (18 How) 421, 433 (1856) ). Thus, it is clear that the northeastern water and related land resources compact constitutes...

...persons subject to it to submit the matter to litigation before pursuing the newly authorized course. See Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 59 US (18 How) 421 (1855). I believe that this case is closely on point. A valid Executive order has the force of a federal statute,...

...parties before the court would be required to continue to perform pursuant to the court's order. Cf. Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 59 US (18 How.) 421 (1855). E. Constitutionality of section 3(1XD) Section SdXD) of the bill prohibits the Department of Justice...

...reversing its position on the point after Congress had consented by statute to the presence of the bridge. Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 59 US (18 How.) 421 (1856), sustained the state act authorizing the bridge after the state power had been released by the...

...to Congressional action. See, eg , System Federation No. 91 v. Wright, 364 US 642, 651-652 (1961); Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co. , 59 US (18 How.) 421, 429-434 (1855); Class v. Norton. 507 F.2d 1058, 1061-1062 (2d Cir. 1974); Williams v. Atkins, 786 F.2d...

...this holding was entirely statutory, a second decision allowing Congress to permit the obstruction, Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 59 US (18 How.) 421 (1856) (Nelson, J.), remained true to Cooley's conclusion that Congress could not give the states powers...

...t^3tort '.Preference Ctaoae. An unbroken line rejects contentions similar to those pressed on us. Eg., Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co., 59 US (18 How.) 421, 433-36 (1856) (a bridge that interdicts access to an upriver port does not violate tiie Clause', remarking...

...Professor Gibbons well recognizes (see his testimony at 9-10) , it has been established at least since Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co.. 59 US (18 How.) 421 (1855) , that Congress is free to "review" a decision of the Court and to change the rule announced therein,...