Legal Opinion
Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. Surface Transportation Board and United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 30, 1997No. 95-3728PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WCL) seeks review of an order of the now-moribund Interstate Commerce Commission 1 requiring WCL to obtain abandonment authority before it can remove any trackage from a rail line that it purchased in 1987. WCL has never provided common carrier service over that line. It did, however, lease the line to Wisconsin & Michigan Railway Company (WIMI), which provided such service for three years beginning in 1992. It was the view of the ICC (with one member dissenting) that in so doing, WCL held itself out as a common carrier willing and…
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