United States Third Circuit

A municipality's petition for review of the Department of Transportation's (DOT) order declaring its ordinance imposing tax on airlines every time one of their flights lands within the municipality's borders invalid is denied as the Anti-Head Tax Act, 49 U.S.C. section 40116 text unambiguously demonstrates that subsection (c) is not a savings clause for flight-related taxes.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/06/2009
• Decided 09/14/2009
• Published 09/14/2009

Judges

• Before CHAGARES and HARDIMAN, Circuit Judges, and GARBIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Francis G.X. Pilleggi (argued), Sheldon K. Rennie, Sophia Siddiqui, Fox Rothschild, Wilmington, DE, for Petitioner., M. Roy Goldberg (argued), Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Washington, DC, Vincent A. LaMonaca, J. Denny Shupe, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, PA, for Intervenor Air Transport Association of America, Inc., Scott P. Lewis, Douglas H. Wilkins, Anderson & Kreiger, Cambridge, MA, for Intervenor Airports Council International-North America.


• For Appellees:
  
• Dale C. Andrews, Paul M. Geier, Mary F. Withum (argued), U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of General Counsel, Robert B. Nicholson, Robert J. Wiggers, U.S. Department of Justice, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Respondent.