...California, 274 US 357, 360;. 2 Sec. 237 (a) of the Judicial Code, as thus amended, now provides that: "A final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest...drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of the United States, and the decision is against its validity; or where is drawn in question the validity...

...judgments and decrees, in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision of the suit could be had; where is drawn in question...exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity: or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority...

...this court appellate jurisdiction in every case decided by the District Court of Appeals in which is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute...or an authority exercised under, the United States, without any reference or regard to the previous clause in the section denning and limiting the mere...

...States, the Supreme Court shall, upon writ of error, reexamine, reverse, or affirm the final judgment of the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, if said claim is made in said court at any time before said final judgment is entered and if the decision...

...of a final judgment or decree, actually or constructively deciding such question, when rendered by the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, and as for the want of a proper appeal no final judgment or decree in such court has been rendered,...

...until today: * "It is axiomatic that, in order to give this court jurisdiction on writ of error to the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, it must appear affirmatively not only that a Federal question was presented for decision by the highest...

...of an authority under that State. Weston v. City Council of Charleston, 2 Pet. 449. A final judgment in any suit in the highest court of a State, in which a decision could be had affirming the validity of an ordinance of a municipal corporation of that State, which...

...such regulations, as Congress shall make. By the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest Court of law or equity in which a decision could be had, of a state, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed...

...on error as being within the 25th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789; a section which enacts that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity in a State wherein is drawn in question the validity of a statute of the United States...

...judiciary act of September 24, 1789, c. 20, 1 Stat. 73, 85, provided that a writ of error would lie to a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, "where is drawn in question...