filed rate doctrine
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From 239 U.S. 446 - Dayton Coal Iron Company v. Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company · 1915Most cited · 45 citing opinions
It is essential to the maintenance of uniform rates and the avoidance of rebates and preferential treatment that the tariff rates filed with the Commission according to the interstate commerce act, while in force, shall be the only rates which the carrier may lawfully receive or the shipper properly pay.