United States Tenth Circuit

The 4-R Act, 49 USC 11501, which prohibits states from discriminating by more than 5 percent in taxing rail transportation property and rail carriers, validly abrogates a state's 11th Amendment immunity despite recent Supreme Court decisions expanding the 11th Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/24/2001
• Published 10/24/2001

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, Jr., Circuit Judge., Before, KELLY, Circuit Judge, MCKAY, Senior Circuit Judge, and BROWN, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs.


• For Appellees:
  
• James W. McBride and Anne M. Stolee, Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Washington, D.C. and W. Perry Dray, Dray, Thompson & Dyekman, P.C., Cheyenne, Wyoming, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, David D. Freudenthal, United States Attorney, Mark B. Stern and Stephanie R. Marcus, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee., Gay Woodhouse, Attorney General, Vicci M. Colgan, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Michael Dinnerstein and Harold E. Meier, Cheyenne, Wyoming, for Defendants-Appellants.