United States Ninth Circuit

In an action to enjoin the implementation of mandatory concession agreements for drayage trucking services as preempted by the FAA Act, denial of a preliminary injunction is reversed, where the agreements were "related to a price, route or service" of a motor carrier.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/04/2009
• Decided 03/20/2009
• Published 03/20/2009

Judges

• Before ROBERT R. BEEZER, FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ, and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher C. McNatt Jr., Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, LLP, Pasadena, CA;  W. Stephen Cannon, Seth D. Greenstein, Stephen S. Anderson, Jr., Constantine Cannon LLP, Washington, DC;  Robert Digges, American Trucking Associations, Inc., Arlington, VA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Karyn A. Booth, Thompson Hine LLP, Washington, DC, for the amicus, The National Industrial Transportation League., Melissa N. Patterson, Department of Justice, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the amicus, the United States of America., Timothy R. Patterson, Office of the Attorney General of California, Oakland, CA, for the amicus, the State of California., Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Washington, DC, for the amicus, National Association of Waterfront Employers.


• For Appellees:
  
• C. Jonathan Benner, Troutman Sanders, LLP, Washington, DC;  Steven S. Rosenthal, Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees., David Pettit, Natural Resources Defense Council, Santa Monica, CA, for the intervenors-appellees.