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TAYLOR v. U.S.

No. 87-5014.

848 F.2d 715 (1988)

Stewart A. TAYLOR, d/b/a Taylor Cutlery Mfg. Co., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Gill, Jr., U.S. Atty., Greeneville, Tenn., J. Edgar Schmutzer, Leonard Schaitman, Jeffrica J. Jenkins (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div. Appellate Staff, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

James R. Shipley, Kingsport, Tenn., Stephen Halbrook (argued), Fairfax, Va., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JONES, WELLFORD, and BOGGS, Circuit Judges.

WELLFORD, Circuit Judge.

The United States of America and two Customs Service officers, John T. Simpson and Burns O'Brien ("appellants"), appeal the district court's decision that certain knives imported into this country by appellee, Stewart A. Taylor, d/b/a Taylor Cutlery Manufacturing Company ("Taylor"), and seized by the United States Customs Service, are not switchblade knives within the meaning of 15 U.S.C. § 1241(b) and 19 C.F.R. § 1295(a)(1). The...

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