United States Ninth Circuit

Customs preenforcement penalty assessment determinations are not final agency decisions under the Administrative Procedures Act, so district courts may not exercise jurisdiction over claims that such determinations are unlawful.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/04/1999
• Decided 10/27/2000
• Published 10/27/2000

Judges

• Before:  BRUNETTI, MAGILL, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Glenn W. Trost, Esq., Los Angeles, California, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carol L. Wallack, Trial Attorney, United States Department of Justice (David M. Cohen, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, United States Department of Justice, on the briefs), Washington, D.C., for the appellees.