Legal Opinion

Acme Fast Freight, Inc. v. United States

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided January 8, 1940PublishedCited by 39 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

AUGUSTUS, N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit (1) to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission refusing to issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to certain of the complainants herein and to enforce by writ of mandatory injunction the exercise of jurisdiction on the part of the Commission of the application for such a certificate, and (2) to set aside a certain order of the Commission rejecting and striking from its files certain joint tariffs of complainants.

The orders were issued in a proceeding initiated by filing with the Commission an application for a…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  2. Great Northern Railway Co. v. O'ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  3. Merchants Warehouse Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  4. Powell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
  5. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1939

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3Cited by39 opinions

  1. Interstate Commerce Commission v. American Trucking AssociationsSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Mercury Motor Express, Inc. v. Norman C. BrinkeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
  3. United States v. Chicago Heights Trucking Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
  4. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad v. Acme Fast Freight, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
  5. Thomson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944

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