American Trucking Ass'n v. Interstate Commerce Commission

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

After years of legislative study, “one of the most intensive inquiries” ever conducted by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,1 and pressure by conflicting interest groups, some seeking continuation of full regulation of the motor transport industry and others seeking its complete deregulation, Congress adopted the Motor Carrier Act of 1980.2 Following a midcourse, Congress reduced but did not eliminate governance of the industry by the Interstate Commerce Commission.3 The Act gives the Commission broad discretion, but not boundless…