New York v. United States

Opinion of the Court by

Mr. Justice Douglas, announced by Mr. Justice Burton.

The orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which appellants seek to have set aside, resulted from two separate investigations instituted by the Commission on its own motion in 1939 to inquire into the lawfulness or unlawfulness of most of the then existing rate-making standards for interstate railroad class freight rates in the United States. One investigation related to classifica*290tions1 under which commodities move by rail freight.' The other related to class rates.2 The two investigations were consolidated…