INDUSTRIA Y DISTRIBUCTION v. TRAILER BRIDGE

No. 13-2518.

797 F.3d 141 (2015)

INDUSTRIA Y DISTRIBUCTION DE ALIMENTOS; Asociacion De Industriales De Puerto Rico; Camara De Comercio De Puerto Rico; Asociacion De Navieros De Puerto Rico; Norton Lilly International; Island Stevedoring, Inc.; Puerto Rico Supplies Group; To-Ricos, Ltd.; Plaza Provision Co.; Horizon Lines of Puerto Rico, Inc.; Crowley Puerto Rico Services, Inc.; Sea Star Lines, Inc.; V. Suarez & Co., Inc; Camara De Mercadeo; Luis A. Ayala Colon Sucres, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. TRAILER BRIDGE; Flexitank, Inc., a/k/a Flexitank; Perez y Cia De Puerto Rico, Inc.; Harbor Bunkering Corporation; Plaza Loiza; Coloso Foods, Inc.; Supermercados Selectos, Inc.; B. Fernandez & Hermanos, Inc.; Pan Pepin Inc.; Supermercados Centro Ahorros, Corp.; Trafon Group, Inc.; Ponce Caribbean Distributors, Inc.; Kraft Foods, LLC; Molinos De Puerto Rico, Inc.; Sucesores Pedro Cortes, Inc.; Colomer & Suarez, Inc.; Supermercados Plaza Loiza; Mendez & Company, Inc.; Marvel Specialties, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Victor A. Suarez-Melendez, in his official capacity as Interim Executive Director of the Commonwealth of PR's Ports Authority; Melba I. Acosta-Febo, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Treasury of the Commonwealth of PR, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rafael Escalera-Rodríguez , with whom Carlos M. Hernández Burgos and Reichard & Escalera were on brief, for appellants.

Jorge Martínez-Luciano , with whom Martínez-Luciano & Rodríguez-Escudero , Guillermo San Antonio-Acha and GSA Law, LLC were on brief, for appellee Víctor A. Suárez-Meléndez.

Rosa Elena Pérez-Agosto , Assistant Solicitor General, Department of Justice, with whom Margarita Mercado-Echegaray , Solicitor General, and Tanaira Padilla-Rodríguez , Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellee Melba I. Acosta-Febo, in her official capacity as Secretary of Treasury for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Eyck Lugo-Rivera , with whom Eliseo Roques-Arroyo , Jelka L. Duchesne-Sanabria and Edge Legal Strategies, P.S.C., were on brief, for S2 Services Puerto Rico, LLC, amicus curiae.

Before HOWARD, Chief Judge, LYNCH and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.


The appellants are three shipping operators who pay a fee to Puerto Rico to conduct business out of the Port of San Juan. The Commonwealth supplied each company with cargo-scanning technology, required them to scan all of their inbound cargo, and then charged each an additional fee. The question on appeal is whether the dormant...

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