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Deputy Attorney General, and Robert M. Atkinson, Assistant Attorney General.
Kent L. Jones argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Days, Acting Assistant Attorney General Paup, Deputy Solicitor General Wallace, Gary R. Allen, Paul M. Geier, Dale C. Andrews, S. Mark Lindsey, and G. Joseph King.
Carter G. Phillips argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was James W. McBride.*
Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.
The power of state and local governments to impose ad valorem property taxes upon railroads and other interstate
*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the State of Iowa by Bonnie J. Campbell, Attorney General, and C. A. Daw; for the State of Washington et al. by Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General of Washington, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Grant Woods of Arizona, Daniel E. Lungren of California, Robert A. Butterworth of Florida, Larry EchoHawk of Idaho, Chris Gorman of Kentucky, Hubert H. Humphrey III of Minnesota, Mike Moore of Mississippi, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Joseph P. Mazurek of Montana, Don Stenberg of Nebraska, Tom Udall of New Mexico, Robert Abrams of New York, Michael F. Easley of North Carolina, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Lee Fisher of Ohio, Susan B. Loving of Oklahoma, T. Travis Medlock of South Carolina, Charles W. Burson of Tennessee, Jan Graham of Utah, Jeffrey L. Amestoy of Vermont, Stephen D. Rosenthal of Virginia, James E. Doyle of Wisconsin, and Joseph B. Meyer of Wyoming; and for the National Conference of State Legislatures et al. by Richard Ruda and Richard G. Taranto.
Richard A. Malm and Thomas W. Andrews filed a brief for the Railway Progress Institute et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the State of California by Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Timothy G. Laddish, Assistant Attorney General, Richard F. Finn, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Robert E. Murphy and Marguerite C. Stricklin, Deputy Attorneys General; for the Association of American Railroads by Betty Jo Christian, Timothy M. Walsh, Jerald S. Howe, Jr., Robert W. Blanchette, and Kenneth P. Kolson; and for Interstate Air Carriers by Jay R. Martin, Peter W. Davis, and John E. Carne.
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