United States Eighth Circuit

Dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of a putative class action against the United States Postal Service alleging breach of a federal common law contract involving Priority Mail is affirmed where the district court properly determined that the matter was a common dispute over rates and services, and authority over such matters lay in the Postal Rate Commission.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/16/2006
• Published 06/16/2006

Judges

• ROSENBAUM, District Judge., Before WOLLMAN and RILEY, Circuit Judges, and ROSENBAUM, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sanford Svetcov, argued, San Francisco, CA (Michael B. Angelovich and Texarkana, TX, Timothy G. Blood, and Maria V. Morris, San Francisco, CA, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eric P. Koetting, Legal Policy and Ratemaking, U.S. Postal Service, Washington, DC (Brien M. Reimer of the same agency, on the brief), for appellee.