Legal Opinion
Shields v. Utah Idaho Central Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 5, 1938No. 28PublishedCited by 207 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
This case presents the questions of the effect of a determination by the Interstate Commerce Commission, for the purposes of the Railway Labor Act, that the respondent is not an interurban electric railway, and of the scope of judicial review of that determination.
The Railway Labor Act, which applies to railroads engaged in interstate commerce, excepts any “interurban” electric railway unless it is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation. The Interstate Commerce Commission is “authorized and directed upon request of the Mediation Board or upon complaint of any…
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