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United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc.

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Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
344 U.S. 33
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
40 of 40
Citing cases (total)
40
Treatment dates
1969
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. remains authority on timely objections in agency proceedings, with one confirmed limit listed below. All 40 flagged citations have been read.
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The Ninth Circuit permitted review where the agency had already fully considered the same objections in recent rulemaking, without requiring them to be repeated in an individual proceeding. The other opinions applied Tucker Truck Lines, used it to discuss questions left undecided in earlier cases, or contained no citation to it.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

40 later cases cite United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc.; 40 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The Ninth Circuit allowed review without a repeated objection in an individual agency proceeding because the agency had fully considered the same issues in recent rulemaking, confining Tucker Truck Lines' timely-objection rule in those circumstances.

    Great Falls Community TV Cable Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Ninth Circuit · filed

    In United States v. L.A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc., 344 U.S. 33, 37, 73 S.Ct. 67, 69, 97 L.Ed. 54 (1952), the Court said: 'Repetition of the objection in (a large number of like cases) * * * might lead to a change of policy, or, if it did not, the Commission would at least be put on notice of the accumulating risk of wholesale reversals being incurred by its persistence.' In the unusual circumstances of these proceedings, however, these considerations have minimal weight. The Commission proceeded deliberately and thoroughly before promulgating the nonduplication rules in the face of objections substantially the same as those which petitioner urges here.
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