Interstate Commerce Commission v. Transcon Lines

I concur in the order denying the petitions for rehearing and rejecting the suggestions for rehearing en banc because I agree that the Trustee has no standing to challenge the lawfulness of its own rates. I write separately to address a related point — the Trustee’s attempt to establish standing by casting its challenge as one to the legality, rather than the lawfulness, of Transcon’s rates. The Trustee contends that Transcon’s coded tariff was not duly filed because neither the Commission nor the public could determine from the four corners of the tariff the identity of the shipper receiving…