Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. v. Kalo Brick & Tile Co.

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• holding that the plaintiffs claims under Iowa law against the defendant railroad for abandonment of a rail line were preempted by the Interstate Commerce Act, which authorized the abandonment
• recognizing authority of the ICC “to pass on the reasonableness of a carrier’s temporary suspension of its service and, if necessary, to order it resumed”
• declaring that the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission (the STB’s predecessor) over railroad abandonments was both “exclusive” and “plenary”
• declaring that the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission––the Board’s predecessor, see 49 U.S.C. § 1302––over abandonments was both exclusive and plenary
• holding preempted a state common-law claim that would have allowed recovery of damages in tort for abandonment of a rail line when that abandonment had been approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission
• holding preempted a state common-law claim that would have allowed recovery of damages in tort for abandonment of a rail line when that abandonment had been ap proved by the Interstate Commerce Commission

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