feb 10, 1877 - Munn v. Illinois
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Munn v. Illinois. The Fourteenth Amendment does not prevent the State of Illinois from regulating charges for use of a business's grain elevators. Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 (1876), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries.
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