Beighle v. Le Roy

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that any state law that prevents a railroad from constructing or operating a line constitutes an impermissible regulation
• concluding that any state law that prevents a railroad from constructing or operating a line constitutes an impermissible regulation
• noting that environmental permitting regulations amount to economic regulation if they prevent a carrier “from constructing, acquiring, operating, abandoning, or discontinuing a line”
• holding “[w]e believe the congressional intent to preempt this kind of state and local regulation of railroad lines is explicit in the plain language of the ICCTA and the statutory framework surrounding it.”
• noting that appeal should be dismissed when an intervening decision renders a case moot
• affirming the Transportation Board's finding that the Termination Act preempted a local environmental permitting requirement

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