After six years of litigation and a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, a team from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher secured a win Thursday in a long-standing challenge to a law that granted Amtrak regulatory authority over freight railroads.
In a six-page decision carrying a cargo-load of railway puns (see below), U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia declared the 2008 Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act (PRII) void and unconstitutional. The case, Boasberg wrote, “has at last reached its terminus.”
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