Illinois Commerce Commission v. Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America, Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company, Intervenor

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• requirements of section 10505(a)(2) are disjunctive; as long as the ICC properly determined that regulation is unnecessary to protect shippers from abuse of market power, it need not find the exempt transaction to be limited in scope
• requirements of section 10505(a)(2) are disjunctive; as long as the ICC properly determined that regulation is unnecessary to protect shippers from abuse of market power, it need not find the exempt transaction to be limited in scope
• although the acquisition of trackage rights under a class exemption may enable carriers to alter routes or raise rates on old routes under threat of abandonment, such behavior is not an “abuse of market power,” but rather reflects the economics of the marketplace.

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