Case Name: CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, Tim Russell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Revenue, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-09-01
Citations: 350 F. App'x 318
Docket Number: No. 09-10772
Parties: CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, Tim Russell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Revenue, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before BLACK, BARKETT, and HILL, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 350
Pages: 318–320

Head Matter:
CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, Tim Russell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Revenue, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 09-10772
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Sept. 1, 2009.
Stephen D. Goodwin, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis, TN, J. Forrest Hinton, Jr., Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Birmingham, AL, James W. McBride, Baker Donelson, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Margaret Johnson McNeill, Glenmore Patrick Powers, II, State of Alabama Department of Revenue, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before BLACK, BARKETT, and HILL, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) appeals the one-page order of the district court dated December 16, 2008, dissolving its preliminary injunction from the imposition of Alabama's sales and use tax on diesel fuel. The district court sua sponte dismissed CSXT's case on the basis that Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Alabama Dept. of Rev., 550 F.3d 1306 (11th Cir.2008) was dispositive.
CSXT asserts that the sales and use tax on diesel fuel discriminates against railroad companies in violation of Section 306(l)(d) of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4) (Section 306). CSXT concedes that the Norfolk Southern panel considered an identical challenge by the Norfolk Southern railroad to the sales and use tax on railroad diesel fuel under Section 306, and ruled in favor of the Alabama revenue department.
CSXT further concedes that the three-judge panel assigned to hear this appeal is bound by the panel's decision in Norfolk Southern We agree. We affirm the judgment of the district court. See United States v. Archer, 531 F.3d 1347, 1352 (11th Cir.2008).
AFFIRMED.
. CSXT filed a petition for hearing en banc of this case, pursuant to Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. No judge in regular service in this court requested that the court be polled on hearing en banc; the petition for hearing en banc has been denied.