Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads

Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 8, 2014 Decided March 9, 2015
Full case name	Department of Transportation, et al., Petitioners v. Association of American Railroads
Docket no.	13–1080
Citations	575 U.S. 43 (more) 135 S. Ct. 1225; 191 L. Ed. 2d 153
Case history
Prior	721 F.3d 666, 406 U.S. App. D.C. 34 (D.C. Cir. 2013); cert. granted, 573 U.S. 930 (2014).
Holding
For purposes of determining the validity of the metrics and standards, Amtrak is a governmental entity.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Alito
Concurrence	Thomas (in judgment)

Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads, 575 U.S. 43 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held "for purposes of determining the validity of the metrics and standards, Amtrak is a governmental entity."^[1]