United States Sixth Circuit

The Surface Transportation Board's grant of a railroad company's request to operate an intermodal transportation facility on plaintiff-City's property is affirmed where the project was bona fide and would have no significant impact on the human environment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/10/2005
• Published 02/10/2005

Judges

• Before:  MERRITT, GIBBONS, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jayson J. Hall, Pentiuk, Couvreur & Kobiljal, Wyandotte, Michigan, Gary K. August, Zausmer, Kaufman, August & Caldwell, Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Petitioners.  Cecelia H. Cannizzaro, Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C., for Respondents.  David H. Coburn, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor.   ON BRIEF:  Jayson J. Hall, Kerry L. Morgan, Randall A. Pentiuk, Pentiuk, Couvreur & Kobiljal, Wyandotte, Michigan, Mark J. Zausmer, Zausmer, Kaufman, August & Caldwell, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Wallace G. Long, Howard & Howard, P.C., Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, for Petitioners.  Cecelia H. Cannizzaro, Evelyn G. Kitay, Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C., for Respondents.  David H. Coburn, Joseph W. Koegel, Jr., Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor.  Perry H. Apelbaum, Gregory A. Barnes, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.