Railroads Sue USA

WASHINGTON - The Association of American Railroads challenges the U.S. Department of Transportation's power under a 2008 law to give Amtrak, a private corporation with a "historically poor record of on-time performance and (a) chronic inability to ... cover its operating costs" the "authority to promulgate binding rules governing the conduct of its contractual partners, the freight railroads."

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