Legal Opinion
Potomac Passengers Ass'n v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 5, 1973No. Nos. 71-1321, 71-1546PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
This consolidated appeal consists of two separate cases, each concerning interpretation of the recently enacted Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, 45 U.S.C. §' 501 et seq. (1970) (hereinafter referred to as the Amtrak Act). These cases were initially consolidated because it appeared that they presented the same or closely related legal issues, namely (1) whether parties other than the Attorney General, employees and employee representatives have standing to sue the National Rail Passenger Service Corporation (hereinafter Amtrak) or individual railroads for…
2Cases cited53 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Abbott Laboratories v. GardnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Marbury v. MadisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1803
- Bell v. HoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Flast v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by17 opinions
- National Petroleum Refiners Ass'n v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Virginia J. March v. United States of America. Virginia J. March v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1974
- Potomac Passengers Association v. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
- Louis Allen McDaniel Jr. v. The University of Chicago and Argonne, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1977
- Illinois Citizens Committee for Broadcasting v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
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