Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113 (1877) The US Supreme Court defined certain private businesses as "private utilities" operating in the public interest, and gave the States the right to regulate the...
Munn v. Illinois, 94 US 113 (1877) The question that the case was concerned with was whether a state could regulate charges for grain elevators. This is expanded - using the idea that a state has the...
Illinois won. The Supreme Court upheld the Granger laws, establishing as constitutional the principle of public regulation of private businesses involved in serving the public interest.