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City of Dallas et al. v. Civil Aeronautics Board et al.
348 U.S. 914·Supreme Court of the United States·1955
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Opinion
No. 440.
City of Dallas et al. v. Civil Aeronautics Board et al.
Brack-ley Shaw for petitioners.
Solicitor General Sobeloff, Assistant Attorney General Barnes, Daniel M. Friedman, Emory T. Nunneley, Jr. and O. D. Ozment for the Civil Aeronautics Board; and Cecil A. Beasley, Jr. and Frederick A. Ballard for the City of Fort Worth et al., respondents. Briefs of amici curiae supporting petitioners were filed by Herman C. Wilson, Walter J. Mattison, J. Elliot Drinard, Dale H. Fillmore, Fred G. Stickel, III, J. W. Anderson, Barnett I. Shur, Alexander G. Brown, A. C. Van Soelen and Charles S. Rhyne for the member municipalities of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers; and Leander I. Shelley for the Airport Operators Council.
[MAJORITY]
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Certiorari denied.