§ 17. All actions and proceedings to which the port authority may be a
party and in which any question arises under the laws relating to the
port authority, or under or concerning any of its orders or actions,
shall be preferred over all other civil causes, except election causes,
in all courts of this state and shall be heard and determined in
preference to all other civil business pending therein, except election
causes, irrespective of position on the calendar. The same preference
shall be granted upon application of the legal representative of the
port authority, in any action or proceeding in which he may be allowed
to intervene.