Groome Transportation, Inc. v. Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

By Judge Melvin R. Hughes, Jr.

This case is before the Court on a Petition for Appeal filed by appellants Groome Transportation, Inc., and V.I.P. & Celebrity Limousines, Inc. (collectively Groome). Groome challenges an order of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) granting a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Gulfstream Limousine Company.

Gulfstream has been operating in a substantial portion of Virginia as a special or charter party carrier since June of 1994. hi its application of March of 1996, the proceedings under review here, it sought a new certificate to allow…