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· 8/21/2023

United States v. Orlando Johnson

How courts have described this case

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  • ruling that state regulations could not require common carriers to obtain state approval before offering reduced rates to the United States
  • sustaining injunction against state statute requiring state commission’s prior approval of federal practice of negotiation of special rates for shipments of governmental property
  • noting that granting relief to plaintiffs who challenged a statute that required the United States to seek prior state approval of the rates it negotiated with common carriers effected \no violation of [the Johnson Act's] mandate in the relief granted here\
  • allowing preenforcement review of a state regulation that required common carriers to receive state pre-approval before offering reduced shipping rates to the United States where the state “ha[d] plainly indicated an intent to enforce the Act”
  • allowing preenforcement review of a state regulation that required common carriers to receive state pre-approval before offering reduced shipping rates to the United States where the state had “plainly indicated an intent to enforce the Act”
  • allowing preenfor- cement review of a state regulation that required common carriers to receive state pre-approval before offering reduced shipping rates to the United States where the state \ha[d] plainly indicated an intent to enforce the Act\

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