Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Public Service Commission Of Nevada

909 F.2d 352 SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION CO., a corporation; Thomas M. Tompkins, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF NEVADA; Scott M. Craigie, Fred Schmidt, Thomas E. Stephens, Jo An Kelly, Stephen Wiel, as Commissioners of Public Service Commission of Nevada; Thomas P. Wright, District Attorney of Storey County; William Rogers, District Attorney of Lyon County, Nevada, Defendants-Appellees. No. 88-15541. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 11, 1989. Decided July 18, 1990. John MacDonald Smith, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants. Neil E. Grad and William H. Kockenmeister, Carson City, Nev., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Before POOLE, REINHARDT and BEEZER, Circuit Judges. BEEZER, Circuit Judge: 1 Appellants, Southern Pacific Transportation Company ("SPTC"), and Thomas M. Tompkins appeal the district court's order granting summary judgment for Public Service Commission of Nevada ("PSC"). Appellants argue that PSC regulations requiring rail carriers to obtain an annual permit prior to loading, unloading, transferring or storing hazardous…