United States et al. v. Capital Transit Company et al. (338 U.S. 286)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided November 14, 1949 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 338 U.S. 286 · 70 S. Ct. 115
- Docket
- No. 40
- Argued
- October 20, 1949
- Decided
- November 14, 1949
- Term
- October Term 1949
- Vote
- 5–3
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
How the Justices voted
- Majority
- Justice Minton, Justice Clark, Justice Burton, Justice Frankfurter, Justice Black
- Dissenting
- Chief Justice Vinson (wrote), Justice R. H. Jackson, Justice Reed
Opinion excerpt
Per Curiam. In United States v. Capital Transit Co., 325 U. S. 357, we upheld the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate certain of Capital Transit’s bus and streetcar rates. The rates involved were in two different categories. Transit operated, as it still does, a bus and streetcar system within the District connecting the residential area with the central business area. It was also one of four bus companies carrying passengers from that central business area to the Pentagon Building and other Defense establishments located just across the Potomac in Virginia. Each day thousands of Government employees living in the District boarded Transit’s streetcars near their residences, rode to the District’s business area, and there transferred to one of the Virginia busses for carriage to the nearby Virginia establishments. In the above case we sustained a Commission order fixing a through fare for the entire trip between the District residential area and the Virginia governmental installations. Transit had strongly urged that its bus and streetcar transportation between residential and business areas, being wholly within the District, could not be treated as part of an interstate movement. For reasons stated in our former opinion we rejected Transit’s contention, holding that the daily stream of Government workers from the District to Virginia and back again…
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