PORT OF NEW YORK AUTH v. FEDERAL MARITIME COM'N

No. 27722.

429 F.2d 663 (1970)

The PORT OF NEW YORK AUTHORITY and Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 31, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur L. Winn, Jr., S. H. Moerman, Washington, D. C., Donald A. Lindquist, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, La., William W. Schwarzer, Mark O. Kasanin, Jack G. Knebel, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, San Francisco, Cal., for Pacific Coast Port Authorities.

William W. Schwarzer, A. T. Suter, Louis A. Schwartz, San Francisco, Cal., for Southern Pac. Co.

James M. Henderson, LaRoe, Winn & Moerman, Washington, D. C., Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., Sidney Goldstein, General Counsel, Francis A. Mulhern, Newark, N. J., for Port of New York Authority.

Leslie Srager, Kominers, Fort, Schlefer, Farmer & Boyer, Washington, D. C., for Board of Commissioners of Port of New Orleans.

Sumter D. Marks, Jr., Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, La., for Board of Commissioners of Port of New Orleans.

John N. Mitchell, Atty. Gen., U. S., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Kenneth H. Burns, Solicitor, Federal Maritime Comm., H. B. Mutter, Deputy Sol. Gen., Norman C. Barnett, Gen. Counsel, Federal Maritime Commission, Irwin A. Seibel, W. Richard Haddad, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for N. O. Traffic & Transportation Bureau.

Edward D. Ransom, San Francisco, Cal., Richard W. McLaren, Asst. Atty. Gen., James L. Pimper, General Counsel, for Pacific Westbound Conference and others.

Donald A. Lindquist, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, La., Gordon L. Poole, R. Frederic Fisher, Lillick, McHose, Wheat, Adams & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., for Intervenor Steamship Conferences.

Before BELL, COLEMAN, and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


BELL, Circuit Judge:

This petition to review an order of the Federal Maritime Commission has its historical roots in that phase of the transportation industry which began with the completion of the transcontinental railroads some one hundred years ago. Competition between the Atlantic and Gulf Coast gateways on the one hand, and the Pacific Coast gateways on the other, for traffic moving between the Far East, Australia, and...

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