Port Norris Express Co., Inc. v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America

This case is nearly identical to Port Norris Express Company v. ICC, 728 F.2d 543 (D.C.Cir.1984) {“Port Norris I”), involving the same petitioner in its crusade to block bulk commodity authorizations by the ICC. Port Norris Express Co. (Port Norris) petitions for review of the Commission’s grant of authority to D-X Trucking, Inc. (D-X) to carry clay, concrete, glass, and stone nationwide — without a restriction against the carriage of these commodities in bulk form. In my opinion, the petition should be denied, because the applicant must be considered to have made an adequate showing of…