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FIREMEN v. CHICAGO, R. I. & P. R. CO.

No. 16.

393 U.S. 129 (1968)

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN & ENGINEMEN ET AL. v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 18, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Youngdahl argued the cause for appellants in No. 16. Leslie Evitts, Chief Assistant Attorney General of Arkansas, argued the cause for appellants in No. 18. With them on the briefs were Joe Purcell, Attorney General of Arkansas, Robert D. Ross, and John P. Sizemore.

Robert V. Light and Martin M. Lucente argued the cause for appellees in both cases. With them on the brief were W. J. Smith, H. H. Friday, and R. W. Yost.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

These cases raise the question whether the Arkansas "full-crew" laws, specifying a minimum number of employees who must serve as part of a train crew under certain circumstances, violate the Commerce Clause or the Fourteenth Amendment. The constitutionality of these Arkansas laws has been specifically upheld against challenges under the same constitutional provisions in three decisions of this Court, in 1911, in...

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