Amtrak’s On-Time Metrics Questioned at U.S. Supreme Court
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U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned a federal law credited with improving Amtrak’s on-time performance, hearing arguments from freight railroads that the measure subjects them to unlawful penalties.
In an hour-long session today in Washington, the court weighed whether the 2008 law unconstitutionally lets Amtrak help set performance standards that can trigger government investigations of freight carriers.