CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON CO. v. I. C. C.

Nos. 79-3775, 79-3777, 80-3020, 80-3159 and 80-3161.

664 F.2d 568 (1981)

The CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON COMPANY, (79-3775, 80-3159), Burlington Northern, Inc., (79-3777, 80-3020, 80-3161), Petitioners, v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Burlington Northern, Inc., Minnesota Power and Light, Detroit Edison Company, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Oliver, Jr., Herbert J. Martin, Frederick W. Claybrook, Jr., Crowell & Moring, Washington, D. C., for petitioners in Nos. 79-3775 and 80-3159.

Richard A. Allen, Gen. Counsel, I.C.C., Washington, D. C., for respondents in all cases.

Kathleen Dollar, Gen. Counsel, I.C.C., Washington, D. C., for respondents in Nos. 79-3775 and 79-3777.

John J. Powers, II, D. J. Conway, Robert J. Wiggers, Antitrust Div., Appellate Sec., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents in No. 79-3775.

James O. Coates, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Burlington Northern, Inc.

Leon L. Wolf, Smith & Schnacke, Cincinnati, Ohio, for intervenor Minnesota Power and Light Co., in both cases.

John F. Donelan, Frederic L. Wood, Donelan, Cleary, Wood & Maser, Washington, D. C., for intervenor Minnesota Power & Light Co., in No. 79-3775.

Richard J. Hardy, Washington, D. C., John B. Pinney, Graydon, Head & Ritchey, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Detroit Edison Co., in both cases.

Robert Lewis Thompson, Antitrust Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent I.C.C. in No. 79-3775, and for respondents in Nos. 79-3777, 80-3020 and 80-3161.

Alan R. Post, Curtis H. Berg, St. Paul, Minn., for Burlington Northern, Inc.

Lawrence D. Walker, Taft, Stettinus & Hollister, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. in both cases.

Benjamin R. Civiletti, Atty. Gen. of the U. S., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents in No. 80-3159.

Thomas S. Calder, Cincinnati, Ohio, R. Eden Martin, John Will Ongman, Washington, D. C., for petitioners in Nos. 79-3777, 80-3020 and 80-3161. Howard J. Trienens, Richard J. Metzger, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners in Nos. 79-3777 and 80-3020.

D. Gary Reed, Cincinnati, Ohio, for petitioners in No. 80-3161.

Before ENGEL, KEITH and MERRITT, Circuit Judges.


ENGEL, Circuit Judge.

Burlington Northern, Inc. (BN) and the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (CC) seek review of a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, reported at 362 I.C.C. 625 (1980). That decision found BN's proposed freight rate increases to be "unreasonable" and set the maximum reasonable rates for three separate line movements at levels established in preexisting rate agreements which the Commission found to exist between BN and three individual shippers...

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