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Great Northern Railway Merger Case
393 U.S. 994·Supreme Court of the United States·1968
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Opinion
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Great Northern Railway Merger Case.
Solicitor General Griswold for the United States, and Robert L. Wald and Joel E. Hoffman for the City of Auburn on the applications.
Valentine B. Deale for Livingston Anti-Merger Committee in support of the applications.
Memoranda in opposition were filed by Hugh B. Cox, Ray Garrett, D. Robert Thomas, Anthony Kane, Louis E. Torinus, Earl F. Requa, Frank S. Farrell, Eldon Martin, and Richard J. Flynn for Great Northern Railway Co. et al.; Robert W. Ginnane, Fritz R. Kahn, and Jerome Nelson for Interstate Commerce Commission • and by 230 Pacific Northwest Shippers.
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D. C. D. C. Applications by the United States and the City of Auburn, Washington, for stay of effectiveness of orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, dated November 30, 1967, and April 11, 1968, authorizing merger of Great Northern Railway Co., Northern Pacific Railway Co., Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., Pacific Coast Railway Co., and Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Co., granted, said stay to remain in effect until further order of the Court. Mr. Justice Fortas took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications.