Legal Opinion
Durbin Paper Stock Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, Florida East Coast Railway Company, Intervenors
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 2, 1978No. 77-1328PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Chief Judge.
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Chief Judge:
Presented for our review are orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission 1 dismissing a complaint filed by petitioner against several railroads for alleged violations of Sections 1(5), 1(6), and 6(7) of the Interstate Commerce Act. 2 Petitioner is a merchant of waste paper and waste wood-pulp originating at its own facilities and shipped to paper mills for recycling. Its shipments were classified by the defendant railroads under the Uniform Freight Classification tariff category for virgin “wood-pulp,”…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
- W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Union Wire Rope Corporation v. Atchison, T. & SF Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
- Calcium Carbonate Co. v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 1966
- National Ass'n of Recycling Industries, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1978
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- Koppel, Inc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1979