WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 41779.

263 F.Supp. 140 (1966)

The WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court N. D. California.

November 22, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. L. Van Dellen, Walter G. Treanor, San Francisco, Cal., E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., Hogan & Hartson, Washington D. C., for plaintiffs The Western Pacific Railroad Co., Sacramento Northern Railway, Tidewater Southern Railway Co.

Charles W. Burkett, W. Harney Wilson, Gary S. Anderson, San Francisco, Ca., for intervening defendant Southern Pacific Co.

F. J. Melia, J. H. Anderson, William P. Higgins, Omaha, Neb., and Robert N. Lowry, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., for intervening defendant Union Pacific Railroad Co.

Vaughan, Paul & Lyons, Varnum Paul, San Francisco, Cal., Earl F. Requa, Frank S. Farrell, Saint Paul, Minn., for intervenor-defendants Northern Pacific Railway Co., and others.

Donald F. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph J. Saunders, John H. Dougherty, Attys. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, Robert S. Burk, Atty., Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., for intervening defendant Interstate Commerce Commission.

Before MERRILL, Circuit Judge, SWEIGERT and ZIRPOLI, District Judges.


ORDER SETTING ASIDE REPORT AND ORDER OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

SWEIGERT, District Judge.

This case, which is before this Court on remand from the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Western Pacific R. R. Co. v. United States, 382 U.S. 237, 86 S.Ct. 338, 15 L.Ed.2d 294 (1965), is an action brought under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. §§ 1336, 1398, 2284, 2321-2325 (1964) to enjoin, annul and set...

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