UNITED STATES v. ATLANTIC RFG. CO.

No. 210.

360 U.S. 19 (1959)

UNITED STATES v. ATLANTIC REFINING CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Bicks argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Hansen and Daniel M. Friedman.

David W. Peck and David T. Searls argued the cause for appellees. On the brief of appellees were Arthur H. Dean, David W. Peck, Roy H. Steyer, Frederick L. Ballard, Jr. and Charles I. Thompson, Jr. for Arapahoe Pipe Line Co., Park Holland, Jr., Gentry Lee and Narvin B. Weaver for Cities Service Pipe Line Co., Llewellyn C. Thomas for Continental Pipe Line Co., John J. Wilson, R. L. Wagner and David T. Searls for Great Lakes Pipe Line Co., Nelson Jones and Joseph J. Smith, Jr. for Humble Pipe Line Co., Arthur H. Dean, David W. Peck, Roy H. Steyer and Hugh H. Obear for Interstate Oil Pipe Line Co. et al., Frank C. Bolton, Jr. and John E. McClure for Magnolia Pipe Line Co., William Simon for Plantation Pipe Line Co., Ben A. Harper for Pure Oil Co., Hammond E. Chaffetz, Cecil L. Hunt and Frederick M. Rowe for Service Pipe Line Co., William F. Kennedy and George S. Wolbert, Jr. for Shell Pipe Line Corp., Joseph P. Walsh, Nat J. Harben, Charles I. Thompson, Jr. and Bynum E. Hinton, Jr. for Sinclair Pipe Line Co., and John J. Wilson and O. J. Dorwin for Texas Pipe Line Co. et al.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Elkins Act, 32 Stat. 847, as amended, 49 U. S. C. §§ 41, 43, and the Interstate Commerce Act, 24 Stat. 380, as amended, 49 U. S. C. § 6 (7), make it unlawful for a common carrier to grant rebates to individual shippers by any device whatsoever, or to discriminate in favor of any shipper directly or indirectly. In 1941 the United States brought a complaint against appellees and several other major...

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