Thomas A. Donelon, Charles J. Eagan, Jr. v. New Orleans Terminal Company and Federal Railroad Administration of the Department of Transportation

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• holding local ordinances not state laws within the meaning of the Railroad Safety Act of 1970, 45 U.S.C. § 434
• holding that both the relit-igation exception and the in aid of jurisdiction exception to the Anti-Injunction Act applied where the court had entered a final judgment as to part of the controversy and still had before it other parts of the controversy
• federal regulations concerning roadbed and tracks held to be preemptive because they controlled “the precise subject matter of the state court suit”

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