AUSTRALIAN MEAT & LIVE-STOCK CORP. v. BLOCK

Court No. 84-4-00535.

590 F.Supp. 1230 (1984)

AUSTRALIAN MEAT AND LIVESTOCK CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs, Meat Import Council of America, Inc., Intervenor-Plaintiff, v. BLOCK, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of International Trade.

June 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford & Warnke, Paul C. Warnke, and Bryan Jay Yolles, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Barnes, Richardson & Colburn, Rufus E. Jarman, Jr., and Carl J. Laurino, Jr., New York City, for intervenor-plaintiff.

Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., David M. Cohen, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch and Velta A. Melnbrencis, New York City, for defendants.

Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell & Reynolds, Charles R. Johnston, Jr., Joseph Tasker, Jr., and Ronelle W. Adams, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae.


Opinion and Order

RESTANI, Judge:

In this action, plaintiffs seek a declaration that defendants may not negotiate voluntary restraint agreements concerning certain meat products that result in meat imports less than the minimum access floor contained in the Meat Import Act of 1979, Pub.L. No. 96-177, 93 Stat. 1291 (1979). Plaintiffs also seek an injunction to bar defendants from negotiating such agreements. Defendants contend that they have plenary...

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