NEW YORK SHIPPING ASS'N v. FEDERAL MARITIME COM'N

Nos. 82-1347, 87-1370.

854 F.2d 1338 (1988)

NEW YORK SHIPPING ASSOCIATION, INC., International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO, Council of North Atlantic Shipping Associations, Atlantic Container Line, Ltd., Dart Containerline Company, Limited, Hapag-Lloyd Aktiengesellschaft, "Italia" S.P.A.N., Nedlloyd Lines B.V., Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority, Sea-Land Service, Inc., Trans Freight Lines, Inc., and United States Lines, Inc., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents. NEW YORK SHIPPING ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, American Trucking Assoc., Inc., American Warehousemen's Assoc., West Gulf Maritime Assoc., National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, Inc., International Association of NVOCCs, et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donato Caruso, with whom C.P. Lambos, New York City, for New York Shipping Association, Inc.; William Karas, Washington, D.C., for Atlantic Container Line, Ltd.; Thomas W. Gleason and Ernest L. Mathews, Jr., New York City, for Intern. Longshoremen's Ass'n, AFL-CIO; Robert S. Zuckerman, Edison, N.J., for Sea-Land Service, Inc.; Francis A. Scanlan, for Council of North Atlantic Shipping Associations, were on the joint brief, for petitioners. Nicholas G. Maglaras, New York City, also entered an appearance for New York Shipping Ass'n, Inc. in 87-1370. Edwin Longcope and Allan J. Berdon, New York City, also entered appearances for petitioner, Dart Containerline Co., in 82-1347.

James W. Pewett and Ronald A. Capone, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for petitioner Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority in 82-1347.

Stanley O. Sher, John R. Attanasio and Robert A. Hazel, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for petitioners, Hapag-Lloyd Aktiengesellschaft, "Italia" S.P.A.N. and Nedlloyd Lines in 82-1347.

John C. Cunningham, Atty., Federal Maritime Com'n, with whom Robert D. Bourgoin, Gen. Counsel, Federal Maritime Com'n, Robert B. Nicholson, Robert J. Wiggers, Attys., Dept. of Justice and Gordon M. Shaw, Atty., Federal Maritime Com'n, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for respondents. C. Jonathan Benner, Atty., Federal Maritime Com'n, Washington, D.C., also entered an appearance for respondent, Federal Maritime Com'n, in No. 82-1347.

Gerald Ullman, New York City, for Nat. Customs Brokers and Forwarders Ass'n of America, Inc., with whom, Kenneth E. Siegel, Kevin M. Williams, Alexandria, Va., for American Trucking Associations, Inc.; William H. Towle, for American Warehousemen's Ass'n; Raymond P. deMember, Fairfax, Va., for Intern. Ass'n of NVOCC's and Florida Customs Brokers and Forwarders Ass'n, were on the joint brief, for intervenors, American Trucking Ass'n, Inc., et al. in 87-1370. Daniel R. Barney, Alexandria, Va., also entered an appearance for intervenor, American Trucking Ass'n, Inc., in 87-1370.

R. Frederic Fisher, Lawrence N. Minch, San Francisco, Cal., and Richard D. Gluck, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for intervenor, West Gulf Maritime Ass'n, in 87-1370.

Before BUCKLEY and D.H. GINSBURG, Circuit Judges and MARKEY, Chief Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge D.H. GINSBURG.

D.H. GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

These two petitions for review require us to revisit the legal imbroglios arising from a collective bargaining agreement between the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and ocean common carriers, known as the Rules on Containers. The Rules implement, in ports along the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico, a technological innovation in the ocean shipping...

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