United States Ninth Circuit

In an action seeking preliminary injunctive relief against certain regulations imposed by the Port of Los Angeles, a local governing body, upon motor carriers entering the Port premises, a denial of injunctive relief is affirmed in part where: 1) the Port was acting out of safety concerns when it enacted each challenged requirement; and 2) the Federal Motor Carrier Act granted only the Interstate Commerce Commission, the agency charged with issuing certificates of convenience, the power to revoke motor carriers' certificates of convenience. However, the order is vacated in part where 49 U.S.C. section 14506(a) did not contain a safety exception.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/04/2009
• Decided 02/24/2010
• Published 02/24/2010

Judges

• Before MYRON H. BRIGHT,Senior Circuit Judge, HARRY PREGERSON and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Digges, Arlington, VA, Christopher C. McNatt Jr., Pasadena, CA, W. Stephen Cannon, Seth D. Greenstein, and Stephen S. Anderson Jr., Washington, DC, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven S. Rosenthal, Alan K. Palmer, David L. Cousineau, Susanna Y. Chu, Washington, DC, Carmen A. Trutanich, Thomas A. Russell, Joy M. Crose, Simon M. Kann, San Pedro, CA, for City of Los Angeles defendants-appellees.