CROUNSE CORP. v. I.C.C.

Nos. 84-3743 through 84-3753, 84-3842 and 84-3868.

781 F.2d 1176 (1986)

CROUNSE CORPORATION, et al., Petitioners, v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 23, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Duncan Whitaker, P.C., Alan M. Wiseman, Robert M. Bruskin, Roxann E. Henry, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C., John J. Naughton, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

Richard A. Zellner (argued), Mark Staib, Hahn, Loeser, Freedheim, Dean & Wellman, Cleveland, Ohio, for Crounse Corp., Water Transport Assoc., Ohio River Co., M/G Transport Services, Canal Barge Co., Dixie Carriers, Inc., Valley Line Co., S.C. Loveland Co., SCNO Barge Lines, National Marine Service, American Waterways Op., PPG Industries and Interstate Power Co.

James F. Bromley, Macleay, Lynch, Bernhard & Gregg, Washington, D.C., for Tampa Electric, Gatliff Coal and TECO Transport & Trade.

Peter A. Gabauer, Washington, D.C., for National Coal Ass'n and Mining and Reclamation Counsel of America.

R. Eden Martin (argued), Washington, D.C., for CSX Corp. and American Commercial Lines.

Herbert S. Sanger, Jr., Gen. Counsel, James E. Fox, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Brent R. Marquand (argued), Gregory R. Signer, T.V.A., Knoxville, Tenn., for Tennessee Valley Auth.

Gordon P. McDougall, Washington, D.C., for Patrick W. Simmons.

Ray H. Walton, Commerce Counsel, North Dakota Public Service Com'n, Bismarck, N.D., for State of N.D.

John A. Vuono, Richard R. Wilson, Vuono, Lavelle & Gray, Pittsburgh, Pa., for PPG Industries, Inc.

William L. Slover, C. Michael Loftus, Donald G. Avery, Kevin J. Dowd, Slover & Loftus, Washington, D.C., for Nat'l Assoc. of Wheat Growers and National Grange.

Richard A. Allen, Office of Gen. Counsel, I.C.C. John J. McCarthy (argued), Catherine G. O'Sullivan, Margaret G. Halpern, Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Div., Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Charles H. White, Jr. (argued) Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Washington, D.C., for CSX and American Commercial Lines, Inc.

Before KENNEDY and KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judges; and TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge.


CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, petitioners1 contest the August 27, 1984 decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission (Commission or ICC) approving the acquisition by CSX Corporation, the nation's second largest railroad, of American Commercial Lines, Inc. (ACL), which owns the nation's largest bargeline, American Commercial Barge Lines (ACBL). Petitioners and intervenors

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