Legal Opinion
Burlington Northern Inc. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 20, 1981No. 79-2517PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MacKINNON.
MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:
Upon complaint of the Anaconda Company, Review Board Number. Four of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) reduced the rail rate for shipping aluminum ingots from Conkelley, Montana to Terre Haute, Indiana (“the Terre Haute route”). In prescribing a lower rate to Terre Haute the Board relied upon the rate that the defendant railroads were charging another aluminum company for shipping the same product over a longer, overlapping route. Because the Board failed to show that the rate for the longer route provided…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Burlington Truck Lines, Inc. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Secretary of Agriculture v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Potomac Electric Power Company v. United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Consolidated Rail Corporation, IntervenorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Coal Exporters Ass'n of the United States, Inc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1984
- Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, Iowa Power and Light Company, IntervenorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1982
- Coal Exporters Association of the United States, Inc. And National Coal Association v. United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Norfolk & Western Railway Company, Coastal States Energy Company, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, Nippon Steel Corporation, and Patrick W. Simmons, Intervenors. Eastern Coal Transportation Conference v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, Norfolk & Western Railway Company, Coastal States Energy Company, and Patrick W. Simmons, IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1984
- Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1983
- Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Association of American Railroads, Florida Phosphate Council, Inc., Intervenors. Public Service Commission of West Virginia v. Interstate Commerce Commission, and United States of America, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, C & O Railroad, Cf Industries, Inc., Association of American Railroads, Florida Phosphate Council, Inc., IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1983
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