ICMA signed onto the State and Local Legal Center’s (SLLC) amicus curiae brief in Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States involving the question of who owns abandoned federally granted railroad rights-of-way. The SLLC’s brief argues the Court should rule in favor of the United States instead of the land owner whose property the right-of-way runs through. Such a ruling will preserve the ability of state and local governments to establish “public highways” on abandoned railroad rights-of-way. State and local governments typically convert them into “Rails-to-Trails.” A longer summary of the case is available on the ICMA’s Knowledge Network.