Goos v. Interstate Commerce Commission

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Todd Goos and twenty other landowners filed a petition for review of an Interstate Commerce Commission decision. In the decision, served on May 18, 1989, the I.C.C. reconsidered its grant of an exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 10505 (1982) for a transaction involving a railroad line in Iowa. The holding, in which the I.C.C. characterized the landowners’ challenge as one not to the exemption but to the issuance of a Notice of Interim Trail Use under the Rails to Trails Act, see 16 U.S.C. §§ 1241-1251 (1988), rejected the environmental and constitutional challenges raised…