United States Second Circuit

A Vermont environmental statute cannot impose pre-construction permit requirements on proposed railroad transloading facilities on the ground that the statute is preempted by the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/14/2005
• Published 04/14/2005

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  CARDAMONE, JACOBS, CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Evelyn G. Kitay (Ellen D. Hanson, General Counsel, on the brief) Washington, D.C. for Amicus Curiae Surface Transportation Board., Robert M. Jenkins III, David M. Gossett, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP, Washington D.C.;  Louis P. Warchot, Dennis J. Starks, Association of American Railroads, Washington, D.C.;  George A. Aspatore, Sarah J. Bailiff, Paul Guthrie, Thomas J. Healey, Paul R. Hitchcock, Theodore K. Kalick, Robert T. Opal, Louise Anne Rinn, Peter J. Shudtz, Sidney L. Strickland, Jr., of Counsel, on submission, for Amicus Curiae Association of American Railroads.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeanne Elias, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Vermont, (Rebecca M. Ellis, Bridget Asay, Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief) Montpelier, VT, for Defendants-Appellants., Robert B. Luce, (Eric A. Poehlmann, on the brief) Downs RachlinMartin PLLC, Burlington, VT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.