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CITY OF WILLIAMSPORT v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 70-64.

324 F.Supp. 369 (1971)

CITY OF WILLIAMSPORT, Borough of Renovo, City of Buffalo, Borough of Emporium, Cameron County Chamber of Commerce, Co-Operative Legislative Committee-Railroad Brotherhoods in the State of Pennsylvania and George Hamilton Forman, Plaintiffs, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Intervening Plaintiff, Milton J. Shapp, Intervening Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Interstate Commerce Commission and Penn Central Transportation Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

March 9, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gelb, Notarianni & Mullaney, Scranton, Pa., John P. Campana, City Sol., Ambrose R. Campana, Asst. City. Sol., Williamsport, Pa., Anthony Manguso, Corp. Counsel, Abraham I. Okun, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Buffalo, N. Y., Richard N. Saxton, Jr., Sol., Borough of Renovo, Lock Haven, Pa., John D. Gresimer, Sol., Edwin W. Tompkins II, Cameron County Chamber of Commerce, Emporium, Pa., George Hamilton Forman, Buffalo, N. Y., Thomas P. Shearer, Pittsburgh, Pa., Gordon P. MacDougall, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

S. John Cottone, U. S. Atty., Julius Altman, Asst. U. S. Atty., John N. Mitchell, U. S. Atty. Gen., Donald A. Brinkworth, Philadelphia, Pa., W. E. Shissler, Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

Larry Gesoff, Asst. Counsel, Albert W. Johnson, III, Asst. Counsel, Edward Munce, Acting Counsel, Harrisburg, Pa., amicus curiae for Pa. Public Utility Comm.

Before GANEY, Circuit Judge, and SHERIDAN and NEALON, District Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM:

In this action plaintiffs seek a review of an Order of the Interstate Commerce Commission refusing, upon jurisdictional grounds, to reopen a prior proceeding allowing the discontinuance of part of a passenger train service operating between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Buffalo, New York. Defendants, United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, have moved for a stay of proceedings until May 1, 1971, on the...

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