Inflation Warriors Win Legal Victory: Inflation Warriors Win Legal Victory
The Supreme Court cleared the way yesterday for the. Carter administration to enforce its antiinflation wage and price guidelines by denying federal contracts to guideline violators.</br></br>But, in an unrelated action involving discrimination rather than inflation sanctions, a lower federal court granted Uniroyal Inc. a temporary restraining order to stop the government from canceling the companyÛªs $36 million in federal contracts.</br></br>Although the two cases are not Jinked, UniroyalÛÓone of the countryÛªs largest rubber and plastics makersÛÓ faces possible contract debarment for wage guideline violations as well as alleged racial and sex discrimination.</br></br>The Supreme CourtÛªs action, although it did not go to the merits of the guidelines dispute, amounted to a major legal victory for the administration's beleaguered inflation fighters.</br></br>For the lack of one justiceÛªs vote, the court refused to hear arguments from the AFL-CIO that a lower appellate court had erred in upholding the presidentÛªs power to enforce the ÛÏvoluntaryÛ guidelines by refusing to do business with guideline offenders.