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Scalia, and Kennedy, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Souter, J., joined, post, p. 676.
Howard J. Trienens argued the cause for petitioner in No. 91-790 and respondent in No. 91-1206. With him on the briefs were Carter G. Phillips, Mark E. Haddad, Jack H. Senterfitt, and Richard T. Fulton.
Tambra Pannell Colston argued the cause pro hac vice for respondent in No. 91-790 and petitioner in No. 91-1206. With her on the brief were James I. Parker and William L. Lundy. Deputy Solicitor General Mahoney argued the cause for
the United States urging affirmance in both cases. With her on the brief were Solicitor General Starr, Assistant Attorney General Gerson, William Kanter, Paul M. Geier, and Dale C. Andrews.†
†Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the State of Ohio et al. by Lee Fisher, Attorney General of Ohio, and Nancy J. Miller, Deputy Chief Counsel, and by the Attorneys General for their respective jurisdictions as follows: Winston Bryant of Arkansas, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Charles M. Oberly III of Delaware, Robert A. Butter-worth of Florida, Ronald W. Burris of Illinois, Bonnie J. Campbell of Iowa, Scott Harshbarger of Massachusetts, Hubert H. Humphrey III of Minnesota, Marc Racicot of Montana, Frankie Sue Del Papa of Nevada, Tom Udall of New Mexico, Ernest D. Preate, Jr., of Pennsylvania, Dan Morales of Texas, and Joseph B. Meyer of Wyoming; for the American Automobile Association by Paul R. Verkuil; for the Railway Labor Executives' Association by Lawrence M. Mann; and for Cynthia Wilson Pryor by J. N. Raines.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Association of American Railroads by John H. Broadley, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., John B. Morris, Jr., and Robert W. Blanchette; for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America et al. by Dale Haralson, Roxanne Barton Conlin, Jeffrey Robert White, and Arthur H. Bryant; for the American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al. by Daniel R. Barney, David A. Strauss, Richard A. Allen, and Charles A. Webb; for the National Conference of State Legislatures et al. by Richard Ruda and Scott L. Nelson; for the National Railroad Passenger Corp. by Paul F. Mickey, Jr., Alvin Dunn, and Stephen C. Rogers; and for the Texas Class I Railroads et al. by Paul A. Cunningham, Gerald P. Norton, Carolyn F. Corwin, and Robert Brian Burns, Jr.
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