Piedmont & Northern Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• “The Transportation Act was remedial legislation, and should therefore be given a liberal interpretation.... ”
• “These [electric railways] are essentially local, are fundamentally passenger carriers, are to an inconsiderable extent engaged in interstate carriage, and transact freight business only incidentally and in small volume.”
• “The Transportation Act was remedial legislation, and should therefore be given a liberal interpretation; ... but for the same reason exemptions from its sweep should be narrowed and limited to effect the remedy intended.”
• remedial legislation should be given a liberal interpretation
• remedial legislation should be given a liberal interpretation
• construing a similar exclusion in the Interstate Commerce Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).