LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 61 C-145.

193 F.Supp. 795 (1961)

LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Interstate Commerce Commission and The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

April 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otto M. Buerger, Jamaica, N. Y. (Richard H. Stokes, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

B. Franklin Taylor, Jr., Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C. (Lee Loevinger, Asst. Atty Gen., Cornelius W. Wickersham, Jr., U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Dept. of Justice, and Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for defendants the United States and Interstate Commerce Commission).

Clark, Carr & Ellis, New York City (Kemper A. Dobbins, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel), for defendant New York, Chicago and St. Louis R. Co.

Before FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge, BRUCHHAUSEN, Chief Judge, and RAYFIEL, District Judge.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

The Long Island Rail Road Company seeks to enjoin an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, dated October 7, 1960, which intiated an investigation of a routing restriction in a tariff and suspended the restriction in the meanwhile, and also various procedural orders entered thereafter. The Commission and The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company, better known as the Nickel Plate, have intervened as defendants. The action has...

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