TIME, INC. v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE

Nos. 893-897, Dockets 81-4183, 81-4185, 81-4203, 81-4205 and 81-6216.

685 F.2d 760 (1982)

TIME, INCORPORATED; Newsweek, Inc.; The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation; Mail Advertising Service Association International; Direct Mail/Marketing Association, Inc.; Mail Order Association of America; National Association of Greeting Card Publishers; American Business Press, Inc.; Associated Third Class Mail Users; American Retail Federation; Council of Public Utility Mailers; United Parcel Service of America, Inc., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Respondent, Direct Mail/Marketing Association, Inc.; Dow Jones & Company; The National Association of Greeting Card Publishers; Association of American Publishers; The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.; United Parcel Service of America, Inc.; American Newspaper Publishers Association; Advertisers Distribution Services; Advertisers Postal Service Corp.; Magazine Publishers Association; Classroom Publishers Association; March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; National Newspaper Association; Mail Order Association of America; Parcel Shippers Association; Time, Incorporated; Newsweek, Inc.; Council of Public Utility Mailers; American Retail Federation; American Bankers Association, Intervenors. DIRECT MAIL/MARKETING ASSOCIATION, INC. and Associated Third Class Mail Users, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Burzio, Washington, D. C. (Hydeman, Mason, Burzio & Lloyd, Justin R. Wolf, Louise C. Powell, Washington, D. C., Charles M. Waygood, Olwine, Connelly, O'Donnell & Wehyer, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner-intervenor Time, Inc.

Toni K. Allen, Jay A. Resnick, Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, D. C., Diana M. Daniels, New York City, of counsel, for petitioner-intervenor Newsweek, Inc.

Robert A. Saltzstein, Stephen Mark Feldman, Wyatt, Saltzstein, Lipsen & Hamberger, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for petitioner American Business Press.

George P. Williams, III, Philadelphia, Pa. (Robert L. Kendall, Jr., John E. McKeever, Margaret S. Woodruff, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for petitioner-intervenor United Parcel Service.

Richard J. Webber, Washington, D. C. (Matthew S. Perlman, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for petitioner-intervenor Nat. Ass'n of Greeting Card Publishers.

Thomas W. McLaughlin, Washington, D. C. (John M. Burzio, Hydeman, Mason, Burzio & Lloyd, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for petitioner The Reuben H. Donnelley Corp.

Ann J. LaFrance, Washington, D. C. (J. Edward Day, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Washington, D. C., Peter R. Stern, Berger, Steingut, Weiner, Fox & Stern, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner Associated Third Class Mail Users.

Dana T. Ackerly, Washington, D. C. (David K. Flynn, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., Robert L. Sherman, Weil, Guttman & Davis, Peter R. Stern, Breger, Steingut, Weiner, Fox & Stern, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner-intervenor-appellant Direct Mail/Marketing Ass'n, Inc.

David C. Todd, Washington, D. C. (Steven M. Schneebaum, Patton, Boggs & Blow, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for petitioner-intervenor Mail Order Ass'n of America, Inc.

Eugene E. Threadgill, Washington, D. C. (Connole & O'Connell, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for petitioners American Retail Federation and Council of Public Utility Mailers.

Frances G. Beck, Associate Gen. Counsel, U. S. Postal Service, Washington, D. C. (Louis A. Cox, Gen. Counsel, Daniel J. Foucheaux, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, Richard T. Cooper, Leslie A. Corston, Eric P. Koetting, Gerald J. Robinson, U. S. Postal Service, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for respondent-appellee U. S. Postal Service.

James N. Horwood, Washington, D. C. (David R. Straus, John Michael Adragna, Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, D. C., William S. Seeley, Eastlund, Peterson & Solstad, Minneapolis, Minn., of counsel), for intervenors Advertisers Distribution Services and Advertisers Postal Service Corp.

William H. Smith, Gen. Counsel, Michael F. Crotty, Asst. Gen. Counsel, American Bankers Ass'n, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for intervenor American Bankers Ass'n.

Before LUMBARD, MOORE and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is the second matter before this Court arising from the fifth general rate-making proceeding since the enactment of the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, 39 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq. (Act). In Newsweek, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, 663 F.2d 1186 (2d Cir. 1981), cert. granted, ___ U.S. ___, 102 S.Ct. 1969, 72 L.Ed.2d 439 (1982), we addressed the lawfulness of certain...

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