Legal Opinion
Northern Air Cargo v. United States Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 3, 2012No. 10-5385, 10-5402, 11-5149PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.
Concurring opinion filed by Chief Judge SENTELLE.
SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case is a partial primer as to how not to defend or adjudicate a challenge to agency action in federal district court. The Postal Service determined, in two informal adjudications, that Peninsula Airways (“PenAir”) was qualified to carry (could be “tendered”) “nonpriority bypass mail” on five Alaska routes. This awkward term refers to types of freight — not ordinary mail — which are carried by planes to small communities in that vast state that…
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