Pejepscot Industrial Park, Inc. v. Maine Central Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that referral was proper for the question of whether certain actions violated ICCTA when a claim for that violation could be adjudicated by a district court or the Board
• noting that “later sections of the ICCTA strongly suggest that certain actions may be filed in federal district court”
• noting that courts should determine whether deference is appropriate under the primary jurisdiction doctrine by considering (1) whether an agency determination lies at the heart of a task assigned by Congress to the agency; (2
• explaining that, when interpreting a statute, a court “will not look merely to a particular clause in which general words may be used, but will take in connection with it the whole statute ... and the objects and policy of the law”
• describing the “quandary Congress created by using inconsistent language”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).