Legal Opinion
Patrick W. Simmons v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, and Chicago-Chemung Railroad Corporation, Intervening
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 2, 1990No. 88-3207PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Patrick W. Simmons1 has asked this court to review the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), which declined to revoke a class exemption pertaining to the sale of Chicago and North Western Transportation Company’s (C & NW’s) Harvard-Chemung railroad line. For reasons which follow, the petition is dismissed for lack of standing.
I. BACKGROUND
For a number of years, C & NW has sought to abandon its Illinois line between Harvard and South Beloit, Wisconsin, a distance of 23.4 miles. C & NW filed its first abandonment application on March 31, 1981,…
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