Practitioners' Journal, Volume 22, Issue 10

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Association of Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners., 1955 - Carriers

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Page 1071 - If any party shall apply to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence, and shall show to the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence is material and that there were reasonable grounds for failure to adduce such evidence in the...
Page 1071 - The judgment and decree of the court shall be final, except that the same shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court upon certiorari as provided in section two hundred and forty of the Judicial Code.
Page 1064 - Persons who appear as counsel or in a representative capacity at a hearing must conform to the standards of ethical conduct required of practitioners before the courts of the United States.
Page 1066 - Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate and shall give to those officers in writing and under oath, his name and business address, the name and address of the person by whom he is employed, and in whose interest he appears or works, the duration of...
Page 1130 - In our original report we pointed out that carriers' tariffs must be construed strictly according to their language; that the Intention of the framers Is not controlling; that although doubt as to the meaning of a tariff must be resolved In favor of the shipper and against the carrier which compiled It, the doubt must be a reasonable one...
Page 1058 - ... 8. Private communications with, the Commission. In the disposition of contested proceedings brought under the Interstate Commerce Act the Commission exercises quasi-legislative powers, but it is nevertheless acting in a quasi-Judicial capacity. It is required to administer the Act and to consider at all times the public interest beyond the mere interest of the particular litigants before it. To the extent that it acts in a quasi-Judicial capacity. it is grossly improper for litigants, directly...
Page 1111 - We think that, in order to foster sound economic conditions in the motor-carrier industry, existing motor carriers should normally be accorded the right to transport all traffic which they can handle adequately, efficiently, and economically in the territories served by them, as against any person now seeking to enter the field of motor-carrier transportation in circumstances such as are here disclosed.
Page 1094 - No such permit shall be issued to any common carrier subject to part I, II, or III of this Act; but no application made under this section by a corporation controlled by, or under common control with, a common carrier subject to part I, II, or HI of this Act, shall be denied because of the relationship between such corporation and such common carrier.
Page 1066 - Treasury to prescribe regulations relating to qualifications of persons who assist taxpayers in the determination of their Federal tax liabilities, and for other purposes.
Page 1070 - A copy of such petition shall be forthwith served upon the Commission, and thereupon the Commission forthwith shall certify and file in the court a transcript of the entire record in the proceeding, including all the evidence taken and the report and order of the Commission.

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