http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1909/ U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>Is the ICC order valid?</p><p>Though the Court had engaged in second-guessing the ICC, in this case the justices signaled that they would review commission orders only with regard to constitutional issues, construction of the statute, and the practical substance of the order. In upholding the order, Chief Justice White declared for the Court that the "[p]ower to make the order and not the mere expediency or wisdom of having made it is the question."</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1909/1909_233/ <p>Did Standard Oil violate the Sherman Act?</p><p>Standard Oil lost, but White, for the majority, managed to amend the language of the Sherman Act such that only "unreasonable" contracts and combinations in restraint of trade would violate the law. Heretofore, the Act made all contracts and combinations in retraint of trade into law violations. In this case, the record shows that the Standard Oil trust was unreasonable.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1909/1909_398/