National Ass'n of Food Chains, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce Commission

I. BACKGROUND

This petition for review challenges a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission which limited the scope of service which must be offered by the class of motor common carriers known as meat haulers. Petitioner National Association of Food Chains (“NAFC”) is a nonprofit organization of retail food chains; the other petitioner, the Eastern Meat Packers Association (“EMPA”), is a trade association of independent meat packers. The intervenors are motor common carriers that transport loose meat and carcass meat pursuant to authorization by the Commission.1

Prior to 1958, tariffs…