GREENSBORO-HIGH POINT AIR. A. v. Civil Aeronautics Bd., 12608.
Decision Date | 22 March 1956 |
Docket Number | No. 12608.,12608. |
Citation | 231 F.2d 517,97 US App. DC 358 |
Parties | GREENSBORO-HIGH POINT AIRPORT AUTHORITY, Petitioner, v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD, Respondent, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., and Piedmont Aviation, Inc., Intervenors. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — District of Columbia Circuit |
Mr. Gerald F. Krassa, Atty., Civil Aeronautics Board, with whom Messrs. Franklin M. Stone, Gen. Counsel, Civil Aeronautics Board, John H. Wanner, Associate Gen. Counsel, Civil Aeronautics Board, and O. D. Ozment, Chief, Litigation and Research Division, Civil Aeronautics Board, were on the brief, for respondent.
Mr. Charles H. Weston, Atty., Dept. of Justice, also entered an appearance for respondent.
Mr. W. Glen Harlan, Atlanta, Ga., with whom Mr. E. Smythe Gambrell, Atlanta, Ga., was on the brief, for intervenor Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Mr. Llewellyn C. Thomas, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for intervenor Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Messrs. Cecil A. Beasley, Jr., Eugene B. Thomas, Jr., and Dyer J. Taylor, Washington, D. C., entered appearances for intervenor Piedmont Aviation, Inc.
Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.
This is a petition to review two orders of the Civil Aeronautics Board. The petitioner airport authority alleges that it was not accorded a fair hearing; that the Board's findings were inadequate; and that the Board's orders unfairly discriminated against it.
On December 11, 1953, the Civil Aeronautics Board gave public notice of a proposed hearing, the pertinent portion of the notice reading as follows:
A number of cities in the eastern half of the United States moved to intervene in the proceedings: some of these applications were granted and some denied. The petitioner now before us, the Greensboro-High Point Airport Authority of North Carolina ("Greensboro"), did not at this time move to intervene. Hearings were held, and at their conclusion the trial examiner rendered an initial decision awarding to Eastern Air Lines a new route-segment extending from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Detroit via Columbus and Toledo, and awarding to Piedmont Aviation a route-extension running from Charleston, West Virginia, to Columbus. At this point Greensboro requested the Board for leave to intervene, saying in part:
The Board granted leave to intervene and allowed Greensboro to argue its case. In due course thereafter the Board approved the substance of the examiner's report and granted appropriate certificates to Eastern and Piedmont. Greensboro then filed a request for reconsideration and a rehearing, alleging, among other things, that the Board did not give proper notice to Greensboro, that its decision did not contain findings to support the rejection of Greensboro's arguments and that the Board's decision discriminated against Greensboro. It asked the Board to split Eastern's route at Greensboro, or at a point north thereof, rather than at Charlotte. In the alternative, if that relief were denied, Greensboro asked that the Board reopen the record "for the purpose of hearing petitioner upon the issues raised in this petition."
The Board denied Greensboro's petition for reconsideration, stating:
Greensboro now petitions this court for review of the Commission's orders.1 Its contentions here are that (1) it was denied a fair hearing because it was not given adequate notice and because the Board failed to reopen the record, and (2) the Board failed to make adequate findings showing the reasons for its rejection of Greensboro's contentions.
The Board argues that Greensboro did in fact receive adequate notice of the proposed hearings. It says that the action recommended by the examiner and adopted by the Board was one of the possible solutions to the transportation problem outlined in the notice of hearing and that Greensboro should have recognized this. The intervenor Eastern also argues that the route between Columbus and Charlotte was one of the routes impliedly requested in Eastern's original petition for additional service, and that by selecting that route and granting it to Eastern the Board in fact gave Eastern only a portion of the relief it had originally asked for. Accordingly, it says, this was within the scope of the notice of hearing actually issued.
We need not pass upon these contentions because we think that in view of all the circumstances Greensboro is not in a position to challenge the notice of hearing. When the examiner's initial decision was announced Greensboro had ample notice from its terms of the effect of the proposed action. At that stage it could have moved for a reopening of the hearings so as to permit it to put in evidence. It did not do so. Instead, it merely asked leave to intervene, and in fact advised the Board that permission to intervene "will not unduly broaden the issues or delay the proceeding." The Board granted the petition and Greensboro presented its arguments orally. In doing so, however, it did not allege any lack of notice or ask leave to present additional evidence....
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