COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. C. A. B.

Nos. 73-2070, 73-2076.

498 F.2d 129 (1974)

The COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Petitioner, v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD, Respondent. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OF the STATE OF MARYLAND (successor in interest to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Maryland, originally named as a Complainant before the Civil Aeronautics Board), et al., Petitioners, v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Reiber, Boston, Mass. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., of Va., Vann H. Lefcoe and Henry M. Massie, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen. of Virginia, on brief), for petitioner in No. 73-2070.

Frederick A. Ballard, Washington, D. C. (Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, J. Michael McWilliams and William M. Huddles, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Maryland, J. Cookman Boyd, Jr., John C. Smuck and Ballard & Beasley, Washington, D. C., on brief), for petitioners in No. 73-2076.

Alan R. Demby, Atty., Civil Aeronautics Board (O. D. Ozment, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Glen M. Bendixsen, Associate Gen. Counsel, Litigation and Research, Robert L. Toomey, Atty., Civil Aeronautics Board, Thomas E. Kauper, Asst. Atty. Gen., Carl D. Lawson, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Richard Littell, Gen. Counsel, Civil Aeronautics Board, on brief), for respondents in Nos. 73-2070 and 73-2076.

Nicholas Panarella, Jr., Asst. City Solicitor (Herbert Smolen, Asst. City Solicitor, John Mattioni, Deputy City Solicitor, Martin Weinbert, City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia, on brief), for intervenor City of Philadelphia, in Nos. 73-2070 and 73-2076.

Herman F. Scheurer, Jr., Washington, D. C. (John J. McLaughlin, III and Shanley & Fisher, Washington, D. C., on brief), for intervenor Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade in Nos. 73-2070 and 73-2076.

Patrick W. Lee, Washington, D. C. (Jerry W. Ryan, James M. Burger, Reavis, Pogue, Neal & Rose, Washington, D. C., on brief), for joint intervenors Pan American World Airways, Inc. and Trans World Airlines, Inc. in Nos. 73-2070 and 73-2076.

Harold E. Spencer, Chicago, Ill. (Thomas F. McFarland, Jr., Michael M. Glusac, Detroit, Mich., Richard L. Curry, Robert L. Hankin, Chicago, Ill., John P. Cushman, James J. Tedesco, Jr., Detroit, Mich., Belnap, McCarthy, Spencer, Sweeney & Harkaway, Chicago, Ill., on brief), for intervenors Chicago and Detroit Interests in Nos. 73-2070 and 73-2076.

Laidler B. Mackall, Richard P. Taylor, John W. Arata and Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D. C., on brief for intervenors Massachusetts Port Authority and Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in Nos. 73-2070 and 73-2076.

Francis A. Mulhern, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Newark, N. J., on brief for intervenors The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in Nos. 73-2070 and 73-2076).

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and FIELD, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Virginia's and Maryland's petitions to review an order of the Civil Aeronautics Board (Board), a proceeding in which two carriers—Pan American World Airways, Inc., and Trans World Airways, Inc.—and numerous affected localities —Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Metropolitan New York-New Jersey—have been permitted to intervene, raises the basic question of whether the Board exceeded its statutory...

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