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Aircoach Transport Association, Inc., et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al.; and Independent Military Air Transport Association v. American Airlines, Inc., et al., 1957 — 353 U.S. 905 · caselaw · US
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Aircoach Transport Association, Inc., et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al.; and Independent Military Air Transport Association v. American Airlines, Inc., et al.
353 U.S. 905·Supreme Court of the United States·1957
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No. 778.
No. 779.
Aircoach Transport Association, Inc., et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al.; and Independent Military Air Transport Association v. American Airlines, Inc., et al.
Albert F. Beitel and John H. Pratt for petitioners in No. 778. Coates Lear and Theodore I. Seamon for petitioner in No. 779. Howard C. Westwood, John T. Lorch and Robert L. Stern for respondents, and Mr. Lorch and Mr. Stern for United Air Lines, Inc., W. Glen Harlan for Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Henry J. Friendly and Robert C. Barnard for Pan American World Airways, Inc., L. Welch Pogue for Delta Air Lines, Inc., C. Edward Leasure for Continental Air Lines, Inc., et al., John F. Floberg for Allegheny Airlines, Inc., et al., Mr. Pogue, D. P. Renda and John W. Simpson for Western Air Lines, Inc., Charles H. Murchison for Capital Airlines, Inc., Hubert A. Schneider for Braniff Airways, Inc., John Marshall for Pacific Northern Airlines, Inc., Amos M. Mathews, A. P. Donadío, Russell B. James, D. 0. Mathews and Guernsey Orcutt for Abilene & Southern Railway Co. et al., and Richard A. Fitzgerald for National Airlines, Inc., respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Motion of petitioners to defer consideration of the petitions for writs of certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Black would grant the motion. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied.
Reported below: 98 U. S. App. D. C. 348, 235 F. 2d 845.