UNITED STATES v. VEN-FUEL, INC.

No. 84-1268.

758 F.2d 741 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. VEN-FUEL, INC., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Tribble, Miami, Fla., with whom Joseph A. Moretz, Blackwell, Walker, Gray, Powers, Flick & Hoehl, Miami, Fla., Gerald F. Rath, and Herrick & Smith, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Paul W. Johnson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., with whom Richard E. Welch, Asst. U.S. Atty., and William F. Weld, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and SELYA, District Judge.


SELYA, District Judge.

The government sued Ven-Fuel, Inc. (Ven-Fuel) in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts under 19 U.S.C. § 1592 (1970) for the imposition of a civil penalty referable to Ven-Fuel's illicit importation of residual fuel oil into the United States, and more specifically, into Massachusetts, in 1974. The district court entered judgment against Ven-Fuel and assessed a civil penalty in the...

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