National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp.

National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 13, 1992 Decided March 25, 1992
Full case name	National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp.
Holding
Amtrak may condemn a railroad's trackage and convey it to another railroad to continue intercity passenger service; the Interstate Commerce Commission reasonably interpreted 45 U.S.C. § 562(d).
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Souter
Dissent	White, joined by Blackmun, Thomas
Laws applied
45 U.S.C. § 562(d)

National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp., 503 U.S. 407 (1992), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (better known as Amtrak), could condemn railroad property and convey it to another railroad in order to continue passenger rail service over that route.

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