Legal Opinion

United States v. Idaho

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 27, 1936No. 420PublishedCited by 54 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beandeis

The Interstate Commerce Act provides in Paragraph 18 of Section 1 that no interstate carrier “shall abandon all o,r any portion of a line of railroad, or the operation thereof, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the [Interstate Commerce] Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity permit of such abandonment.” Paragraph 22 provides that the “authority of the Commission” conferred by Paragraph 18 shall not extend to the “abandonment of spur, industrial, team, switching or side tracks, located . . . wholly within one State.”…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Tagg Bros. & Moorhead v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
  2. Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Northside Belt Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1928
  3. Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Jackson & Eastern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
  4. Idaho v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Utah · 1935

3Cited by54 opinions

  1. Rochester Telephone Corp. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
  2. Shields v. Utah Idaho Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  3. Deering Milliken, Inc., a Corporation v. Reed Johnston, as Regional Director of the National Labor Relations BoardCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1961
  4. City of Yonkers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
  5. Powell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1937

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