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Heald v. District of Columbia, 254 U.S. 20 (1920)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Heald v. District of Columbia, 254 U.S. 20 (1920)
Heald v. District of Columbia No. 300 Argued October 18, 1920 Decided November 8, 1920 254 U.S. 20
CERTIFICATE FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Syllabus
The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia has not power to certify questions to this Court under Jud.Code, § 251, nor has this Court power to entertain such certificate, in a case wherein the judgment or decree of the Court of Appeals would be reviewable here by error or appeal under § 250. P. 21. Arant v. Lane, 245 U.S. 166.
A judgment or decree of that court is so reviewable here, under the third paragraph of Jud.Code, § 250, when it involves the constitutionality as well as the construction of an act of Congress, though the act be local to the District of Columbia. P. 22. American Security & Trust Co. v. District of Columbia, 224 U.S. 491, distinguished.
The power to construe a statute is a necessary incident of the power to determine its constitutionality. P. 23.
Paragraphs third and sixth of Jud.Code, § 250, being reenactments of preexisting law, must retain the settled meaning attached to them before reenactment in the absence of plain implication to the contrary. Id.
Dismissed.
The case is stated in the opinion.
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