National Motor Freight Traffic Ass'n v. United States

BURGER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs seek to set aside and annul a decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission 1 2**approving a tariff published by the Western Freight Association, a freight forwarder, in which reduced rates were set out for freight shipments of 20,000-30,000 pounds moving from the area called Official Territory (generally the territory East of the Mississippi River and North of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers) to points on the Pacific Coast. Plaintiffs, all motor carrier associations whose members are individual carriers engaged in interstate commerce, attack the tariff as…