PACIFIC FAR EAST LINE, INC. v. FEDERAL MARITIME BOARD

Nos. 15085, 15086.

275 F.2d 184 (1960)

PACIFIC FAR EAST LINE, INC., Appellant, v. FEDERAL MARITIME BOARD et al., Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. FEDERAL MARITIME BOARD et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Donald E. Van Koughnet, Washington, D. C., for appellant in No. 15085.

Mr. Richard A. Solomon, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Mr. Henry Geller, Atty., Dept. of Justice, was on the brief, for appellant in No. 15086.

Mr. Edward Aptaker, Chief, Regulation Branch, Division of Litigation, Federal Maritime Board, with whom Messrs. E. Robert Seaver, Gen. Counsel, Federal Maritime Board, Robert E. Mitchell, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Federal Maritime Board, and Edward Schmeltzer, Atty., Federal Maritime Board, were on the brief, for appellees Federal Maritime Board, Maritime Administration, Clarence G. Morse, Maritime Administrator, and Frederick H. Mueller, Secretary of Commerce.

Mr. Alvin J. Rockwell, San Francisco, Cal., with whom Mr. Willis R. Deming, San Francisco, Cal., was on the brief, for appellee Matson Navigation Company.

Before EDGERTON, WILBUR K. MILLER, and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.


EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

Pacific Far East Line, Inc. (PFEL) asked the District Court to set aside an order of the Federal Maritime Board and the Maritime Administrator (collectively called "the Board") denying PFEL's application for permission to operate unsubsidized vessels between the Pacific Coast and Hawaii.1 The United States intervened in the District Court as a plaintiff in opposition to the Board's order. Matson Navigation Company...

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