NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff,
v.
UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, and
City of San Rafael, et al., Public Utilities Commission, et al., anid Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, Intervening Defendants.
United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 17, 1964.
April 17, 1964.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Randolph Karr, Frederick E. Fuhrman, Harold S. Lentz, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff Northwestern Pacific R. Co.
William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Cecil F., Poole, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for the United States.
Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, H. Neil Garson, Associate Gen. Counsel, Robert S. Burk, Atty., Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.
Graham, James & Rolph, Boris H. Lakusta, E. Myron Bull, Jr., San Francisco, Cal. for intervening defendants Cities of San Rafael, San Anselmo, Fairfax and Sausalito, California; County of Marin; Marin Industrial Development Foundation; Camgros Gravel and Fuel Co., Inc.; Chris Craft Sales of San Rafael; Colonial Wax Products Corporation of California; Golden Gate Distributing Company; Henry Hess Company; California Newspapers, Inc. (San Rafael Independent Journal); McPhail Fuel Co.; PBM Inc.; Rice Supply, Inc.; A. G. Schoonmaker Co.; Service Lumber Co.; and Shamrock Materials, Inc.
Richard E. Tuttle, Hector Anninos, San Francisco, Cal., for intervening defendants The People of the State of California and The Public Utilities Commission of California.
Frederick G. Pfrommer, San Francisco, Cal., for intervening defendant Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. Co.
Before BROWNING, Circuit Judge, and SWEIGERT and ZIRPOLI, District Judges.
United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.
PER CURIAM.
This action involves the petition of Northwestern Pacific Railroad to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission which denied Northwestern's request to abandon 2.465 miles of railroad line in Marin County, California. There are two major issues for consideration. First, plaintiff Northwestern Pacific contends that this Court should exercise its own independent judgment on the law and the facts pursuant to the "constitutional fact" doctrine...
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