v2410-1109
In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit
No. 11023
Chester Bowles, Administrator, Office of Price
Administration, appellant
Patrick Lumber Company (a corporation), appellee
REPLY BRIEF FOR APPELLANT
Appellee's brief consists almost entirely of statements
that are either (a) irrelevant or (b) inaccurate and
misleading.
- Thus a large part of his argument is devoted to
showing that the prices established by the Administra-
tor through the Price Executive of the Lumber Branch
pursuant to application under Section 12 of the Regu-
lation and asserted by the Administrator to be applica-
ble to the lumber sales in this suit, were invalid
because "arbitrary" in amount, and based on "usurped
authority" and "unwarranted assumptions" (Brief,
pp. 18-21), or were invalid because of allegedly uncon-
stitutional retroactivity (Brief, pp. 23-26). This at-
tack on the validity of the prices established under
Section 12 is irrelevant to the issues here because the
validity of prices established under the Emergency
Price Control Act can be attacked only in the Emer-
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