BALTIMORE & O. C. T. R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 77-1714, 77-1732.

583 F.2d 678 (1978)

BALTIMORE AND OHIO CHICAGO TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Respondents, Central Vermont Railway, Inc., Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway, and the Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company, Intervenors, Burlington Northern Inc. and Union Pacific Railroad Company, Intervenors, Duval Sales Corporation, International Minerals & Chemical Corporation, Evans Products Company and Pullman Leasing Company, Intervenors, The Texas Mexican Railway Company, Intervenor. ALIQUIPPA AND SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES of America and the Interstate Commerce Commission, Respondents, Duval Sales Corporation, International Minerals & Chemical Corporation, Evans Products Company and Pullman Leasing Company, Intervenors, The Texas Mexican Railway Company, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Daily, Richard J. Murphy, Philadelphia, Pa., Martin L. Cassell, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Emried D. Cole, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., Donald E. Cross, Washington, D. C., Robert S. Davis, St. Louis, Mo., Louis T. Duerinck, Chicago, Ill., Charles B. Evans, St. Augustine, Fla., James L. Howe, III, Washington, D. C., Peter J. Hunter, Jr., Roanoke, Va., Howard D. Koontz, Chicago, Ill., Kinga M. LaChapelle, Albany, N. Y., William C. Leiper, Pittsburgh, Pa., Joseph J. Nagle, Chicago, Ill., John J. Paylor, Cleveland, Ohio, C. Harold Peterson, Minneapolis, Minn., John A. Ponitz, Detroit, Mich., John MacDonald Smith, San Francisco, Cal., Robert H. Stahlheber, Donal L. Turkal, St. Louis, Mo., Sidney Weinberg, Boston, Mass., for petitioners and intervening railroads in support of petitioners in No. 77-1714.

Samuel P. Delisi, Pittsburgh, Pa., C. H. Johns, Gen. Counsel, American Short Line R.R. Assn., Washington, D. C., for petitioners in No. 77-1732.

Robert L. Thompson, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Mark L. Evans, Gen. Counsel, Henri F. Rush, Associate Gen. Counsel, John J. McCarthy, Jr., I. C. C., Washington, D. C., for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

William P. Higgins, W. Donald Boe, Jr., Union Pacific Railroad Co., Omaha, Neb., Curtis H. Berg, Sr., William R. Power, Burlington Northern Inc., W. Charles Hogg, Jr., Edward C. Toole, Jr., Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, Philadelphia, Pa., for Burlington Northern Inc. and Union Pacific Railroad Co., intervenors in support of respondents.

Harold E. Spencer, Thomas F. McFarland, Jr., Chicago, Ill., for intervening Private Car Interests in Support of respondents; Belnap, McCarthy, Spencer, Sweeney & Harkaway, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Before ADAMS, WEIS and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners in these consolidated cases1 request us to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) entered on April 7, 1977, in Ex Parte No. 289, "Remittance of Demurrage Charges by Common Carriers of Property by Rail."2 By its order, the ICC adopted a regulation requiring the remittance to freight...

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