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Article: Federal judge upholds state law to slow trains in Orr; Going from 60 miles per hour to 30 mph isn't a burden for the Canadian National Railway, the ruling said.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 5, 2007
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Byline: Rochelle Olson; Staff Writer
A state law passed to make trains slow down from 60 to 30 miles per hour as they pass through Orr in northeastern Minnesota is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday.
"The time involved in traveling through Orr at 30 [miles per hour] is not much greater than traveling through Orr at 60 [miles per hour]. Thus ... the special law is not an impermissible burden on interstate commerce," U.S. District Judge Michael Davis wrote.
Canadian National Railway challenged the 2005 state law on several grounds, including that it violated the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. The clause bars state legislation if it discriminates ...