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PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILL. v. I.C.C.

No. 82-2235.

722 F.2d 1341 (1983)

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, et al., Petitioners, Mt. Pulaski Products, Inc., Intervening Petitioner, v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company, Intervening Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1983.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon P. MacDougall, Washington, D.C., David Nixon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

Colleen J. Bombardier, I.C.C., Washington, D.C., Richard M. Kamowski, ICG RR Co., Chicago, Ill., for respondents.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, POSNER, Circuit Judge, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The Staggers Rail Act of 1980 has placed tight time limits on proceedings before the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon railroad lines; and the most important issue raised by this petition to review an order of the ICC authorizing the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad to abandon a 31-mile line between Clinton and New Holland, Illinois is whether the Commission, in its zeal to expedite the proceeding, denied the opponents of the abandonment...

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