Legal Opinion
City of Dallas, Texas v. Southwest Airlines Company
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided June 21, 1973No. CA 3-5927-CPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, Jr., Chief Judge.
This case involves the right of access of Southwest Airlines Co. (hereinafter sometimes referred to as “Southwest”) to Love Field, a public airport owned and operated by the City of Dallas, Texas. Plaintiffs, the City of Dallas, the City of Fort Worth, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport Board, seek a declaratory judgment, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2201, declaring their right under federal and state law to exclude Southwest, a purely intrastate air carrier, from Love Field on and after the opening of the new Dallas-Fort Worth…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- People v. Western Air Lines, Inc.California Supreme Court · 1954
- Thompson v. Texas Mexican Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Civil Aeronautics Board v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1961
- American Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics BoardCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966
- Wills v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.District Court, S.D. California · 1961
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Southwest Airlines Company v. Texas International Airlines, Inc. v. Texas Aeronautics Commission, Intervenor-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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- Buddy Cramer v. Samuel K. Skinner, as Secretary of Transportation, and Safe Airspace for Everyone, InterveningCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1991
- State of Kansas v. United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1994
- Texas Workers' Compensation Commission v. City of Eagle Pass/Texas Municipal League Workers' Compensation Joint Insurance Fund, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2000
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