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1924-06-09

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James Everard's Breweries v. Day, 265 U.S. 545 (1924)

The Supreme Court upheld, 9 June 1924, the Supplemental Prohibition Act's ban on physicians prescribing malt liquor as medicine. The printed counsel line lists Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt on the government's brief.

Date: 1924-06-09
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), reprinting the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: 265 U.S. 545 (1924), Nos. 200 and 245
Rights: Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judicial opinions of the Court are not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105; Wheaton v. Peters). The text read here is CourtListener's scan-derived copy of the reported opinion.

Argued March 4 and 5, 1924, decided June 9, 1924; Nos. 200 and 245. In an opinion by Justice Sanford, the Court upheld section 2 of the Supplemental Prohibition Act of 1921 so far as it forbids physicians to prescribe intoxicating malt liquors for medicinal purposes, and affirmed.

The printed counsel line for the appellees reads: “Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt and Mr. Mahlon D. Kiefer were on the brief, for appellees.” The line does not give her title. This archive files the case for that line only; it records her place on the government’s brief, not any argument she made.

itemUnited States v. Sullivan, 274 U.S. 259 (1927)The Supreme Court holds, 16 May 1927, in an opinion by Justice Holmes, that gains from an unlawful liquor business are taxable income and that the Fifth Amendment did not excuse the defendant from filing a return at all.itemUnited States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile, 272 U.S. 321 (1926)The Supreme Court holds, 22 November 1926, that the National Prohibition Act did not displace Revised Statutes section 3450, so an automobile used to conceal tax-unpaid illicit liquor could be forfeited under that section.

itemMabel Willebrandt, half-length portrait (1920-1940)Library of Congress biographical-file photograph of Mabel Willebrandt seated in her law office, reading at a desk covered with papers and books. The Library's title is devised and the date spans 1920-1940.