Legal Opinion
The Assigned Car Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 31, 1927No. 709, 710, 711, 712, 713, 714, 715, 716, 606, 638PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the Court.
These five suits were brought in the federal court for eastern Pennsylvania under the Urgent Deficiencies Act, October 22, 1913, c. 32, 38 Stat. 208, 219, to enjoin and annul an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The order, which was to become effective March 1, 1925, prescribes for all railroads subject to its jurisdiction a so-called “Assigned Car Rule ” governing the distribution of cars among bituminous coal mines in times of car shortage. Assigned Cars for Bituminous Coal Mines, 80 I. C. C. 520; 93 I. C. C. 701. Some of the…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- United States Ex Rel. Attorney General of the United States v. Delaware & Hudson Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Virginian Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- New England Divisions CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- United States & Interstate Commerce Commission v. Abilene & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924
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3Cited by112 opinions
- South Carolina v. KatzenbachSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- California v. LaRueSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Arizona Grocery Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- United States v. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1972
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