Court Opinion

ID: 9691616
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 20:44:19.483267+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:23.727439
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THOMAS, District Judge
(dissenting).
As stated by Judge Mize in the majority opinion, the paramount question for determination is whether or not there was substantial evidence to support the finding of the Commission. The law is well settled “that an order of the Commission is entitled to finality, and may not be set aside, modified or disturbed on judicial review, if such order of the Commission lies within the scope of the Interstate Commerce Statute, and is based upon adequate findings that are supported by substantial evidence.”1 There *818is no question but that the order of the Commission lies within the scope of the statute. In discussing the limitation upon the right of courts to review orders of the Commission, in the case of Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 222 U.S. 541, 32 S.Ct. 108, 111, 56 L.Ed. 308, the court said:
“In determining these mixed questions of law and fact, the court confines itself to the ultimate question as to whether the Commission acted within its power. It will not consider the expediency or wisdom of the order, or whether, on like testimony, it would have made a similar ruling. ‘The findings of the Commission are made by law prima facie true, and this court has ascribed to them the strength due to the judgments of a tribunal appointed by law and informed by experience.’ Ill. Cent. v. Interstate Commerce Comm., 206 U.S. 441, 27 S.Ct. 700, 51 L.Ed. 1128. Its conclusion, of course, is subject to review, but, when supported by evidence, is accepted as final; not that its decision, involving, as it does, so many and such vast public interests, can be supported by a mere scintilla of proof, but the courts will not examine the facts further than to determine whether there was substantial evidence to sustain the order.”
In my opinion, the findings made by the Commission in support of its conclusion are entirely adequate, and fulfill the needs emphasized in the case of State of North Carolina v. United States, 325 U. S. 507, 65 S.Ct. 1260, 89 L.Ed. 1760.
The record must be considered as a whole. I have considered the record as a whole and am of the opinion that on the authority of King v. United States, 344 U.S. 254, 73 S.Ct. 259, 97 L.Ed. 301, the order complained of has a rational basis in adequate findings, which are supported by substantial evidence.
I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion.

. Louisiana Public Service Comm. v. United States of America and the Interstate Commerce Comm., D.C., E.D. of La., 125 F.Supp. 180.