Supreme Court of the United States, 1960

Eastern Air Lines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics Board

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided May 2, 1960

362 U.S. 970; 80 S. Ct. 954 (United States Reports)

Counsel

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.

Cases that cite this one

1 later published case cites this decision.

Braniff Airways, Incorporated v. Civil Aeronautics Board, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Intervenor (D.C. Cir. 1967)

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Opinion of the Court

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.

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