CHRYSLER CORPORATION v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSP.

Nos. 71-1339, 71-1348-1897, 71-1349-1896, 71-1350-1826, and 71-1546.

472 F.2d 659 (1972)

CHRYSLER CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION et al., Respondents. JEEP CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION et al., Respondents. AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION et al., Respondents. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION et al., Respondents. AUTOMOBILE IMPORTERS OF AMERICA, Petitioners, v. NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION et al., Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

December 5, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Pickering, Washington, D. C., for Ford.

Victor E. DeMarco, Cleveland, Ohio, for Chrysler Corp.; Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, Cleveland, Ohio, Keith A. Jenkins, Victor C. Tomlinson, Michael W. Grice, Detroit, Mich., on brief.

Milton D. Andrews, Washington, D. C., for Automobile Importers of America; Busby, Rivkin, Sherman, Levy & Rehm, Washington, D. C., on brief.

William E. Carroll, Detroit, Mich., for American Motors Corp. and Jeep Corp.; Cross, Wrock, Miller & Vieson, Jay A. Herbst, Detroit, Mich., on brief; Forrest A. Hainline, Jr., Vice President and Gen. Counsel — American Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., of counsel.

Raymond D. Battocchi, Washington, D. C., for appellees; Lowell Dodge, Center for Auto Safety, Washington, D. C., L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter H. Fleischer, Morton Hollander, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief; John W. Barnum, Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Transp., New York City, Lawrence G. Schneider, Chief Counsel, Richard B. Dyson, Frank Berndt, Asst. Chief Counsels, John G. Womack, Atty., Washington, D. C., National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, of counsel.

Before WEICK, PECK and MILLER, Circuit Judges.


JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners, major domestic and foreign manufacturers of automobiles, have petitioned this Court for a review of an order of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the Department of Transportation, adopted pursuant to the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, 15 U. S.C. § 1381-1461, entitled "Motor Vehicle Safety Standard #208, Occupant Crash Protection in Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger...

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