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...Congress has . . . flagrantly violated the requirements of due process of law under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution in that many of the Act's provisions are grossly arbitrary, unreasonable and capricious. . . ." Like most important measures, the Public Utility Act carries a "separability" clause, which provides that invalidation of one section of an act shall not affect the rest. Said Judge Coleman: "The invalid provisions of the [Public Utility] Act ... are so multifarious and so intimately and repeatedly interwoven throughout the Act as to render them incapable of separation from such parts of the Act, if any, as otherwise...
...future Duchess of Gloucester is a very careful driver. She is not fond of speed and seldom travels at more than 30 miles an hour; this being one of the reasons why her semi-invalid father, the Duke of Buccleuch, prefers her as a driver to any other member of his family. Another keen motorist in the family is Lord George Scott, the Duke's youngest son, who is often seen driving along the Border roads in a 20-h.p. Armstrong Siddeley...
...laws enacted by the administration are of doubtful constitutional validity. In the Schecter and Panama Oil Cases the Supreme Court nullified acts which embodied some of the fundamental political principles of the current regime. But this does not lead to the necessary implications that all of the acts are invalid or that the administration is deliberately trying to submerge the Constitution...
...case of tuberculosis, pneumothorax may be a beneficial accident because it immobilizes the diseased lung, gives it a chance to rest and heal, and may enable the tuberculous invalid to attend his ordinary affairs. When doctors realized that good fact, they invented a procedure called artificial pneumothorax...
...Watch the woman, Drummond,' I shouted, for suddenly from the bed where the invalid had been lying sprang a gorgeously beautiful creature, a sinister something gleaming in her hand...