Burlington Northern Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• federal court’s decision vacated because allowing court’s exercise of jurisdiction would “undermine[] the [federal agency’s] ability to exercise the primary jurisdiction delegated to it by Congress”
• federal court's decision vacated because allowing court's exercise of jurisdiction would \undermine[ ] the [federal agency's] ability to exercise the primary jurisdiction delegated to it by Congress\
• Court of Appeals lacks power to reinstate old ICC rate after invalidating revised rate
• There a D.C. Court of Appeals which rejected ICC rate orders was held without power to freeze those rates prior to a decision by the Commission as to what reasonable rates should be
• appeal was timely where second order “‘[resolved] a genuine ambiguity in a judgment previously rendered’ and dealt with a question which was not ‘plainly and properly settled with finality’”
• Court of Appeals lacks power to reinstate old ICC rate after invalidating revised rate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).