Cedarapids, Inc. v. Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• holding that to the extent that a state-law claim sought to force CC & P to abandon the track in question, such claims were preempted by ICCTA
• holding that to the extent that Cedarapids’ state-law claim sought to force CC&P to abandon the track in question, such claims were preempted by the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act
• stating “[t]he ICCTA by its terms makes it clear that the STB has exclusive jurisdiction over the abandonment of tracks…”
• state court suit by lessee of property, subject to railroad right of way, seeking injunction barring railroad-lessor's use of trackage in question and rescission of lease preempted
• “[I]n enacting the ICCTA, Congress intended to occupy completely the field of state economic regulation of railroads.”
• ICCTA preempts state law providing for reversion of railroad right-of-way after abandonment by railroad

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).