Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the Act preempted a local environmental-permitting requirement that sought to prevent a railroad from pursuing various rail improvement projects
• rejecting a plaintiff’s reliance on legislative history of a federal statute, rather than “the language of the statute itself,” in determining whether a state law was expressly preempted
• ICCTA preempts state and local environmental review laws as applied to reopening of rail line
• ICCTA preempts state and local environmental review laws as applied to reopening of rail line
• seeming to apply a broader preemption rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).