Erie-Lackawanna Company v. United States

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Erie-Lackawanna Company v. United States
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929832Erie-Lackawanna Company v. United States — Syllabus
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United States Supreme Court

385 U.S. 914

Erie-Lackawanna Company  v.  United States

Edward W. Bourne, for applicant Erie-Lackawanna R. Co.

Harry G. Silleck, Jr., for applicant Delaware & Hudson R. Corp.

George L. Saunders, Jr., Howard J. Trienens and Edward K. Wheeler, for applicants Baltimore & O. R. Co. and others.

Gordon P. MacDougall, for applicants certain New Jersey and Pennsylvania communities.

Gordon P. MacDougall, Israel Packel and Arthur A. Arsham, for applicant Shapp.

Robert W. Ginnane and Fritz R. Kahn, for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Hugh B. Cox, Henry P. Sailer and Windsor F. Cousins, for Pennsylvania R. Co.

James B. Gray, for the New York Cent. R. Co.

Joseph Auerbach, for Trustees of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. Co.

Harold M. Mulvey, Atty. Gen., and Samuel Kanell and William J. Lynch, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State of Connecticut.

Edward W. Brooke, Atty. Gen., and David Berman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

J. Joseph Nugent, Atty. Gen., and Robert M. Schacht, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State of Rhode Island.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., Dunton F. Tynan, Asst. Sol. Gen., Mortimer Sattler, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Walter J. Myskowski, for the State of New York.

Donald L. Wallace, for Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Commerce of Greater Pittsburgh.

Applications for Stay.

Applications for a stay of enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission [1] authorizing a merger of the Pennsylvania R. Co. and the New York Central R. Co., pending this Court's determination of appeals from a decision of a three-judge district court in the Southern District of New York, 259 F.Supp. 964 sustaining the Commission's order, have been submitted to Mr. Justice HARLAN, as the Associate Justice assigned to the Second Circuit, by eight railroad companies, [2] a number of New Jersey and Pennsylvania communities, [3] and a Pennsylvania R. Co. stockholder. [4]

Notes[edit]

  1. Order of April 6, 1966, 327 I.C.C. 475, as modified by Order of September 16, 1966, —I.C.C. --.
  2. Erie-Lackawanna R. Co.; Delaware & Hudson R. Corp.; Baltimore & Ohio R. Co.; Central R. Co. of New Jersey; Chesapeake & Ohio R. Co.; Norfolk & Western R. Co.; Reading Co.; Western Maryland R. Co.
  3. City of Hoboken, City of Union City, Township of North Bergen, and Township of Weehawken (communities in the State of New Jersey); Borough of Freedom and City of Scranton (communities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania).
  4. Milton J. Shapp, who appears also as a citizen of Pennsylvania.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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