Practitioners' Journal, Volume 16, Issue 4Association of Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners., 1949 - Carriers |
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80th Congress action Administrative Procedure Act affirmed agency amended appeal application Ashland Coal assigned authority Board Building Bureau carriers and freight cents Chairman Chicago Class I railroads Commis Commission administers Commission's common carriers Company Congress December 13 decision Department determine District Court division docket effective employees Examiner exercise facts favor Federal field filed findings forms of transportation freight forwarders functions George Allison governmental hearing Illinois groups increase Indiana groups Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission issued judicial review jurisdiction matters ment mission months of 1948 motor carriers operating P. O. Box passengers petition plaintiff portation proceeding promotional proposed question Railroad Retirement Board railroads Railway reasonable record regulation regulatory relating reparations respect result revenue Secretary shippers sion statute Street substantial evidence Supreme Court tank cars tariffs tion Traffic Transport Economics types of transportation United Washington water carriers York
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Page 322 - Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers...
Page 311 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates, the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management...
Page 301 - In making the foregoing determinations, the court shall review the whole record or those parts of it cited by a party, and due account shall be taken of the rule of prejudicial error.
Page 322 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 300 - In making the foregoing determinations the court shall review the whole record or such portions thereof as may be cited by any party, and due account shall be taken of the rule of prejudicial error.
Page 292 - But the more liberal the practice in admitting testimony, the more imperative the obligation to preserve the essential rules of evidence by which rights are asserted or defended.
Page 302 - ... reasons or basis therefor, upon all the material issues of fact, law, or discretion presented on the record, and (2) the appropriate rule, order, sanction, relief, or denial thereof.
Page 319 - Theretofore, the effort of Congress had been directed mainly to the prevention of abuses, particularly those arising from excessive or discriminatory rates. The 1920 act sought to insure, also, adequate transportation service.
Page 289 - ... it has been settled that the orders of the Commission are final unless (1) beyond the power which it could constitutionally exercise; or (2) beyond its statutory power; or (3) based upon a mistake of law. But questions of fact may be involved in the determination of questions of law, so that an order, regular on its face, may be set aside if it appears that (4) the rate is so low as to be confiscatory and in violation of the constitutional prohibition against taking property without due process...
Page 326 - ... to subsection (c) of section 5, any other officer or officers qualified to preside at hearings pursuant to section 7) shall initially...