SAFIR v. BLACKWELL

Nos. 770, 840, Dockets 77-6219, 77-7626.

579 F.2d 742 (1978)

Marshall P. SAFIR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert J. BLACKWELL, Assistant Secretary of Commerce et al., Defendants-Appellees. Marshall P. SAFIR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN EXPORT LINES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall P. Safir, Brooklyn, N. Y., pro se.

Gilbert S. Fleischer, Department of Justice, New York City (Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., and David G. Trager, U. S. Atty. for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees Robert J. Blackwell, et al.

Elmer C. Maddy, New York City (Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee United States Lines, Inc.

James N. Jacobi and Kurrus, Dyer, Jacobi & Mooers, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for defendant-appellee American Export Lines, Inc.

J. Franklin Fort, T.S.L. Perlman, William H. Fort and Kominers, Fort, Schlefer & Boyer, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for defendants-appellees Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. and Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.

Robert T. Basseches, Washington, D. C. (Shea & Gardner, Daniel H. Margolis, Warren L. Lewis and Bergson, Borkland, Margolis & Adler, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendants-appellees American President Lines, Ltd., Prudential Lines, Inc., and PSS Steamship Company, Inc.

Verne W. Vance, Jr., Arthur G. Telegen and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., of counsel, for defendants-appellees Farrell Lines.

Barrett, Smith, Schapiro, Simon & Armstrong, New York City, of counsel, for defendants-appellees American President Lines, Ltd., Prudential Lines, Inc., PSS Steamship Company, Inc., and Farrell Lines, Inc.

Before FRIENDLY and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, District Judge.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Marshall P. Safir has been laboring for more than a decade to obtain a recovery for the United States of subsidies alleged to have been illegally paid to members of the Atlantic and Gulf American Flag Berth Operators (AGAFBO). The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) held, on December 8, 1967, that in 1965 AGAFBO, with the purpose of eliminating Mr. Safir's company, Sapphire Steamship...

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