Judge William Coleman, sitting in United States District Court here today, ruled that the Wheeler-Rayburn Public Uuilities Act was "unconstitutional in its entirety."
The decision, expected to become historic in the legal annals of the New Deal, was given after the securities markets of the nation had closed. It is expected to form: the basis of an eventual appeal to the United States Supreme Court and to assume an im= portance as great as that given to the litigation attending the NIA. and the AAA.
Judge Coleman, in holding the ct unconstitutional, ordered the trustees
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