Grantwood Village v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that line is only abandoned “after the ICC [and now the STB] has authorized an abandonment and after the railroad has consummated that abandonment authorization”
• stating Congress abolished the ICC as a sperate agency in 1996 whereby its functions were taken over by the STB
• stating the ICC4 “has exclusive and plenary authority to determine whether a rail line has been abandoned” and “federal law preempts state law on the question of abandonment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).