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CITY OF MILWAUKEE, WIS. v. BLOCK

No. 85-C-1509.

688 F.Supp. 479 (1988)

CITY OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. John R. BLOCK, in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture and as Chairman of the USDA Commodity Credit Corporation, et al., Defendants, and Transportation Institute, et al., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

June 15, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant F. Langley, City of Milwaukee, City Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., Robert E. Jensen, George D. Baker, Williams and Jensen, P.C., Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Ann M. Kisting, Asst. U.S. Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., Dennis G. Linder, Dina R. Lassow, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Jonathan Blank, Kathryn P. Broderick, Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman, Washington, D.C., for defendants-intervenors.

DECISION AND ORDER

WARREN, Chief Judge.

The Cargo Preference Act of 1954, 46 U.S.C.App. § 1241(b), (1970, West Supp. 1987), and its 1985 amendment, 46 U.S.C. § 1241f, require that whenever the federal government contracts to purchase and transport agricultural commodities to overseas nations, the federal agencies involved are to make certain that up to 75 percent of the commodities will be transported "on privately owned United States-flag commercial...

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