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Eastern Air Lines, Inc., v. Civil Aeronautics Board; and Capitol Airways, Inc., v. Civil Aeronautics Board, 1960 — 362 U.S. 970 · caselaw · US
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Eastern Air Lines, Inc., v. Civil Aeronautics Board; and Capitol Airways, Inc., v. Civil Aeronautics Board
362 U.S. 970·Supreme Court of the United States·1960
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Opinion
No. 785.
No. 786.
Eastern Air Lines, Inc., v. Civil Aeronautics Board; and Capitol Airways, Inc., v. Civil Aeronautics Board.
E. Smythe Gambrell, W. Glen Harlan and Harold L. Russell for petitioner in No. 785.
Coates Lear and Jerrold Scoutt, Jr. for petitioner in No. 786. Solicitor General Rankin, Acting Assistant Attorney General Bicks, Richard A. Solomon, Franklin M. Stone and O. D. Ozment for respondent.
C. Frank Reavis and C. Edward Leasure for Northwest Airlines, Inc. Robert Reed Gray for Delta Air Lines, Inc. Charles H. Murchison, Robert B. Hankins, Macon M. Arthur and James H. Bastían for Capital Airlines, Inc.
[MAJORITY]
The motions of Northwest Airlines, Inc., and Delta Air Lines, Inc., to be named parties respondent and for leave to file briefs in opposition to the petitions for certiorari are granted. The motion of Capital Airlines, Inc., to be named a party respondent and for leave to file brief in opposition to the petition for cer-tiorari in No. 785 is granted. Petitions for writs of certio-rari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
Reported below: 271 F. 2d 752.