Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 (1876)^[1], was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with corporate rates and agriculture. The Munn v. Illinois case allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads. // Case citation is the system used in common law countries such as the United States, England and Wales, Canada, New Zealand Australia and India to uniquely identify the location of past court cases in special series of books called reporters. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The Supreme Court of the United States is the supreme court in the United States. ...

This case involved the most famous opinion delivered by Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite (1816-1888). In it, he upheld legislation proposed by the Grangers to regulate grain elevator rates, declaring that the general welfare requires that business interests be reined in by governmental authority. This decision also affected similar laws governing railroad rates; as they were also deemed private utilities serving the public interest, the laws governing their rates were constitutional as well. Both applications were considerably narrowed and weakened by the decision in Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois (also known as the Wabash Case). The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the judicial branch of the government of the United States, and presides over the Supreme Court of the United States. ... Categories: People stubs | Chief Justices of the U.S. | 1816 births | 1888 deaths ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Grange Hall in Maine, circa 1910 The Grange movement in the United States was a farmers movement involving the affiliation of local farmers into area granges to work for their political and economic advantages. ... This article is about grain elevators. ... Wabash, St. ...

In Munn v. Illinois, the Supreme Court decided that the Fourteenth Amendment did not prevent the State of Illinois from regulating charges for use of a business's grain elevators, ignoring the question of whether Munn & Scott was a person. Instead, the decision focused on the question of whether or not a private company could be regulated in the public interest. The court's decision was that it could, if the private company could be seen as a utility operating in the public interest. The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War amendments and includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. ... Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 25th 149,998 km² 340 km 629 km 4. ...

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court Cases
• Corporate personhood
• Grange movement

This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. ... Corporate personhood is a term used to describe the legal fiction used within United States law that a corporation has a limited number or subset of the same constitutional rights as a human being. ... Grange Hall in Maine, circa 1910 The Grange movement in the United States was a farmers movement involving the affiliation of local farmers into area granges to work for their political and economic advantages. ...

External links

• ^ 94 U.S. 113 (Full text of the decision courtesy of Findlaw.com)

References

• Munn v. Illinois. InfoPlease Encyclopedia. URL accessed on March 1, 2005.