ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD CO. v. U.S.

No. ___.

385 U.S. 914 (1966)

ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD CO. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward W. Bourne for Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Co., Harry G. Silleck, Jr., for Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corp.; George L. Saunders, Jr., Howard J. Trienens and Edward K. Wheeler for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. et al.; Gordon P. MacDougall for certain New Jersey and Pennsylvania communities; and Gordon P. MacDougall, Israel Packel and Arthur A. Arsham for Shapp, applicants.

Briefs in opposition filed by: Robert W. Ginnane and Fritz R. Kahn for the Interstate Commerce Commission; Hugh B. Cox, Henry P. Sailer and Windsor F. Cousins for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.; James B. Gray for New York Central Railroad Co.; Joseph Auerbach for Trustees of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.; Harold M. Mulvey, Attorney General, and Samuel Kanell and William J. Lynch, Special Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Connecticut; Edward W. Brooke, Attorney General, and David Berman, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; J. Joseph Nugent, Attorney General, and Robert M. Schacht, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Rhode Island; Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General, Dunton F. Tynan, Assistant Solicitor General. Mortimer Sattler, Assistant Attorney General, and Walter J. Myskowski for the State of New York; the City of Philadelphia; and by Donald L. Wallace for Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Pittsburgh.


Applications for a stay of enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission1 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...

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