Trustees of the Diocese of Vermont v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a declaratory-judgment action in state court to determine whether an easement for railroad purposes had been abandoned interfered with the ICC’s authority to determine the issue
• state courts would not decide whether easement for federally regulated railroad line had been abandoned
• “[sjtate laws which ‘interfere with, or are contrary to the laws of Congress’ are invalidated by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution”
• state court did not have jurisdiction to hear declaratory judgment action that railway easement was extinguished; even though tracks had been removed, carrier had neither sought nor received permission from the ICC to abandon
• prior state court decision in the case
• prior state court decision in the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).