Legal Opinion
Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Summerfield
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 1, 1954No. 223PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Delta Air Lines, petitioner in No. 223, is the successor by merger to Chicago and Southern Air Lines (C & S). C & S was an air carrier which conducted both domestic and foreign operations prior to the merger. The present case involves subsidy mail pay for its foreign operations from 1946 through 1950.
In 1948 the Board, on applications made by C & S in 1944 and 1945, fixed a prospective annual subsidy for its domestic operations beginning January 1, 1948, which the Board estimated would yield a net return after taxes of 7.4 percent on that part of its investment allocable to those operations.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- American Toll Bridge Co. v. Railroad Commission of CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Summerfield, Postmaster General v. Civil Aeronautics BoardCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
3Cited by21 opinions
- Civil Aeronautics Board v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Neil Jacobson v. Delta Airlines, Inc., a Georgia Corporation, and Hugh Burton, Individually and as Customer Service Supervisor of Delta AirlinesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
- Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics BoardCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
- State v. CatalanoSupreme Court of Florida · 2012
- American Overseas Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics BoardCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
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