AMERICAN BUSLINES, INC. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. Nos. 644-65, 684-65, 894-65.

253 F.Supp. 481 (1966)

AMERICAN BUSLINES, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants. AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION, AFL-CIO, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, American Buslines, Inc., National Association of Motor Bus Owners, Intervening Defendants. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA and Local Union 549, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, Overnite Transportation Company and Rutherford Freight Lines, Inc., Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

April 20, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Wilson, Warren Woods, and Jon F. Hollengreen, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff in Civ.A. No. 644-65 and for intervening defendant, American Buslines, Inc., in Civ.A. No. 684-65.

I. J. Gromfine and William B. Peer, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff in Civ. A. No. 684-65.

Herbert S. Thatcher and David S. Barr, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs in Civ. A. No. 894-65.

William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., of United States, and John H. D. Wigger, Dept. of Justice, David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, and Leonard S. Goodman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Robert J. Corber, Washington, D. C., for intervening defendant, National Association of Motor Bus Owners, in Civ.A. No. 684-65.

J. W. Alexander, Jr., Charlotte, N. C., and W. T. Croft, Washington, D. C., for intervening defendants, Overnite Transportation Co. and Rutherford Freight Lines, Inc., in Civ.A. No. 894-65.

Before BURGER, Circuit Judge, and McGUIRE and CURRAN, District Judges.


CURRAN, District Judge.

Two of these consolidated civil actions involve attacks by two labor unions upon orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Midwest Buslines, Inc.—Purchase (Portion)—American Buslines, Inc., 97 M.C.C. 426, and in Overnite Transportation Co.—Purchase—Rutherford Freight Lines, Inc., 97 M.C.C. 568, on the grounds that the Commission gave too little financial protection to adversely affected employees in certain...

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