Pacific Westbound Conference v. United States

As in the case of Atlantic and Gulf West Coast of Central America and Mexican Conference, etc., v. United States of America (United States Maritime Commission), United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 90 F. Supp. 554 , Petitioners here pray that an order of the United States Maritime Commission, commanding them to eliminate from their conference agreements prohibitions against payment of brokerage to freight forwarders, be stayed pending hearing on the merits of their petitions now before this statutory court to annul said order.

The record of the proceedings before the Maritime Commission is before us. It is the same record which was presented to the New York Court. Petitioners in the New York case and the petitioners here are all subject to the order made by the Commission.

In the New York case, the statutory court denied the interlocutory injunction sought apparently upon the ground that the Court believed that there was no reasonable certainty that the petitioners' there might succeed upon the hearing on the merits and that the petitioners’ right-to relief appeared to that court to be too much in doubt to justify the issuance of an interlocutory…