FREIGHT FORWARDERS INST. v. UNITED STATES, I. C. C.

No. 74 C 2311.

409 F.Supp. 693 (1976)

FREIGHT FORWARDERS INSTITUTE et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

February 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Robert Thomas, Henry A. Preston, Kirk B. Johnson, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., and Giles Morrow, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Thomas E. Kauper, Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. D. Wigger, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., James R. Thompson, Jr., U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendant United States.

Fritz R. Kahn, Gen. Counsel, Hugh W. Cuthbertson, Washington, D. C., for defendant Interstate Commerce Commission.

Peter T. Beardsley, Nelson J. Cooney, Robert L. James, Washington, D. C., for intervening defendant American Trucking Associations, Inc.

R. Edwin Brady, Keith G. O'Brien, Roland Rice, Richard R. Sigmon, Washington, D. C., for intervening defendant Regular Common Carrier Conference of American Trucking Associations, Inc.

Francis W. McInerny, John Guandolo, Richard A. Mehley, Washington, D. C., for intervening defendant Local and Short Hall Carriers National Conference.

John W. Storer, McKenna, Storer, Rowe, White & Haskell, Chicago, Ill., Russell & Schureman, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervening defendants Brake Delivery Service, Meier Transfer Service, City Freight Lines, G & H Transportation, Inc., Griley Freightlines, Quickway Trucking Co., S & M Freight Lines and Smith Transportation Co.

Before PELL, Circuit Judge, and MAROVITZ and LYNCH, District Judges.


LYNCH, District Judge.

The plaintiffs have brought this suit to set aside the report and order of the Interstate Commerce Commission (hereinafter Commission) in a proceeding identified as Ex Parte No. 266 (Sub-No. 1), Investigation Into the Scope of Freight Forwarder Terminal Areas, 343 I.C.C. 565. The end result of that proceeding was that the Commission refused to expand the terminal areas of the freight forwarders...

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