Court Opinion

ID: 4704574
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-07-19 15:00:59.416267+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:05:27.843755
License: Public Domain

Case: 20-2227    Document: 56           Page: 1       Filed: 07/19/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                     CSC SUGAR LLC,
                     Plaintiff-Appellant

                                  v.

 UNITED STATES, AMERICAN SUGAR COALITION,
  AMERICAN SUGAR CANE LEAGUE, AMERICAN
     SUGARBEET GROWERS ASSOCIATION,
  AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING, INC., FLORIDA
  SUGAR CANE LEAGUE, RIO GRANDE VALLEY
 SUGAR GROWERS, INC., SUGAR CANE GROWERS
  COOPERATIVE OF FLORIDA, UNITED STATES
 BEET SUGAR ASSOCIATION, CAMARA NACIONAL
       DE LAS INDUSTRIAS AZUCARERA Y
                 ALCOHOLERA,
               Defendants-Appellees
              ______________________

                        2020-2227
                  ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of International
 Trade in No. 1:20-cv-00016-LMG, Senior Judge Leo M.
 Gordon.

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                     CSC SUGAR LLC,
                     Plaintiff-Appellant

                                  v.
Case: 20-2227   Document: 56    Page: 2   Filed: 07/19/2021

  UNITED STATES, GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO,
   AMERICAN SUGAR COALITION, AMERICAN
 SUGAR CANE LEAGUE, AMERICAN SUGARBEET
  GROWERS ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN SUGAR
    REFINING, INC., FLORIDA SUGAR CANE
     LEAGUE, RIO GRANDE VALLEY SUGAR
    GROWERS, INC., SUGAR CANE GROWERS
  COOPERATIVE OF FLORIDA, UNITED STATES
 BEET SUGAR ASSOCIATION, CAMARA NACIONAL
       DE LAS INDUSTRIAS AZUCARERA Y
                 ALCOHOLERA,
               Defendants-Appellees
              ______________________

                       2020-2228
                 ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of International
 Trade in No. 1:20-cv-00017-LMG, Senior Judge Leo M.
 Gordon.
                 ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________

    JOSEPH DIEDRICH, Husch Blackwell LLP, Madison, WI,
 argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented by
 MICHAEL KLEBANOV, NITHYA NAGARAJAN, JEFFREY S.
 NEELEY, Washington, DC.

     DOUGLAS GLENN EDELSCHICK, Commercial Litigation
 Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Jus-
 tice, Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee
 United States. Also represented by REGINALD THOMAS
 BLADES, JR., BRIAN M. BOYNTON, JEANNE DAVIDSON;
 BRANDON JERROLD CUSTARD, PAUL KEITH, Office of the
 Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement and Compliance,
 United States Department of Commerce, Washington, DC.
Case: 20-2227     Document: 56   Page: 3    Filed: 07/19/2021

     JONATHAN M. ZIELINSKI, Cassidy Levy Kent USA LLP,
 Washington, DC, argued for defendants-appellees Ameri-
 can Sugar Coalition, American Sugar Cane League, Amer-
 ican Sugarbeet Growers Association, American Sugar
 Refining, Inc., Florida Sugar Cane League, Rio Grande
 Valley Sugar Growers, Inc., Sugar Cane Growers Coopera-
 tive of Florida, United States Beet Sugar Association. Also
 represented by MARY JANE ALVES, NICOLE BRUNDA, JAMES
 R. CANNON, JR.

     ROSA JEONG, Greenberg Traurig, P.A, Washington, DC,
 for defendant-appellee Camara Nacional de las Industrias
 Azucarera y Alcoholera. Also represented by IRWIN P.
 ALTSCHULER, SONALI DOHALE, FRANCHINY MANUEL
 OVALLE.

    STEPHAN E. BECKER, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
 LLP, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee Government
 of Mexico. Also represented by MOUSHAMI PRABHAKAR
 JOSHI, I.
                ______________________

 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

       PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, LOURIE, and O’MALLEY, Cir-
 cuit Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

  July 19, 2021                  /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date                        Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court