FREIGHT FORWARDERS INSTITUTE v. UNITED STATES

No. 65 Civ. 3939.

263 F.Supp. 460 (1967)

FREIGHT FORWARDERS INSTITUTE, Acme Fast Freight, Inc., National Carloading Corporation, Republic Carloading & Distributing Co., Inc., and Universal Carloading & Distributing Co., Inc., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

January 26, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Givan, Washington, D. C. (S. S. Eisen, Thomas D. Shea and George H. Leonard, New York City, Giles Morrow, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Bryce Rea, Jr., Washington, D. C., Thomas D. Shea, New York City (Rea, Cross, Knebel & Kinnaird, Theodore Polydoroff, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for intervening plaintiffs National Motor Freight Traffic Ass'n, Inc., and others.

Michael Hess, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (Donald F. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Irwin A. Seibel, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for the United States.

Manny H. Smith, Washington, D. C. (Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Seymour H. Kligler, New York City, Stanley E. Tobin, Los Angeles, Cal. (Hill, Farrer & Burrill, Carl M. Gould, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for intervening defendant Los Angeles Wholesale Institute.

Joe G. Fender, Houston, Tex., Seymour H. Kligler, New York City (Robert Elliott, Jr., Janes, Elliott & Van derBorght, St. Paul Minn., of counsel), for intervening defendant National Conference of Non-Profit Shipping Ass'ns, Inc.

David M. Pincus, North Miami, Fla., (Goldstein & Goldstein, New York City, of counsel), for intervening defendant Piggy-Back Shippers Ass'n of Florida.

John A. Fisher, New York City, Ronald N. Cobert, Washington, D. C. (Fisher & Wilson, New York City, Grove, Jaskiewicz, Gillam & Putbrese, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for intervening defendant American Institute for Shippers' Ass'ns, Inc.

Before FEINBERG, Circuit Judge, and PALMIERI and FRANKEL, District Judges.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

This is an action to review two orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission which allowed Piggy-Back Shippers Association of Florida ("Piggy-Back") to continue operation.1 Therefore, once again2 the cumbersome, inefficient machinery of a statutory three-judge court must be invoked to review the Commission's action.3 For reasons set forth below, we sustain...

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