East Texas Motor Freight Lines, Inc. v. United States

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a decision by the Interstate Commerce Commission granting Merchants Fast Motor Lines (Merchants) temporary authority to carry commodities from Texas through New Mexico to Arizona.1 A number of carriers,2 protestants before the Commission, prosecute this appeal. They assert that the ICC proceedings did not comport with due process and that the decision was arbitrary, capricious, and without sufficient evidentiary support in the record. We affirm.

I. The Administrative Process

Appellants received notice of Merchants’ application for temporary…