SAFIR v. GIBSON

No. 552, Docket 34355.

432 F.2d 137 (1970)

Marshall P. SAFIR, Arnold Weissberger and Sapphire Steamship Lines, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Andrew GIBSON, Successor to and Substituted for James W. Gulick, Acting Maritime Administrator, Maritime Administration, United States Department of Commerce, James S. Dawson, Jr., Secretary, Maritime Subsidiary Board, Maritime Administration, United States Department of Commerce, and Maurice Stans, Successor to and Substituted for C. R. Smith, Secretary of Commerce of the United States, Appellees. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc., Bloomfield Steamship Co., Lykes Bros. Steamship Company, Inc., Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc., United States Lines, Inc., American President Lines, Ltd., Prudential Steamship Co., Inc. and Prudential Grace Lines, Inc., and Farrell Lines, Inc., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 26, 1970.

Rehearings Denied June 18, 1970.

Certiorari Denied October 12, 1970.

Certiorari Denied December 7, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isadore B. Hurwitz, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Gilbert S. Fleischer, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Edward R. Neaher, U. S. Atty., Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Louis E. Greco, Attorney in Charge, New York Office, Admiralty and Shipping Section, Department of Justice, of counsel), for appellees.

Stuart J. Land, Irvin B. Nathan, Arnold & Porter, J. Franklin Fort, Kominers, Fort, Schlefer, Farmer & Boyer, Washington, D. C., Elmer A. Maddy, Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, Kurrus & Jacobi, and Galland, Kharasch, Calkins & Brown, Daniel H. Margolis, Lionel Kestenbaum, Mary-Margaret Gillen, Bergson, Borkland, Margolis & Adler, Washington, D. C. and Whitman Knapp, Barrett, Knapp, Smith & Schapiro, New York City, Verne W. Vance, Jr., Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., and Dills & Shelker, and Gerald A. Novack, New York City, for defendants-intervenors.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and FRIENDLY and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied October 12, 1970. See 91 S.Ct. 57.

Certiorari Denied December 7, 1970. See 91 S.Ct. 241.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is a sequel to our decision in Safir v. Gibson, 417 F.2d 972 (1969), where we held that under § 810 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, 46 U.S.C. § 1227, the Maritime Administration was "required to make a considered decision whether to recover the subsidies paid in...

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