United States Magnesium LLC v. United States, No. 06-00422 (Ct. Int'l Trade 2007)
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Slip Op. 07-83 UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE ____________________________________ : UNITED STATES MAGNESIUM LLC, : : Plaintiff, : : v. : : UNITED STATES, : : Defendant. : ____________________________________: Before: MUSGRAVE, Judge Court No. 06-00422 MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER [Proposed intervenor filed motion for permissive intervention pursuant to USCIT Rule 24(b). Motion denied.] Dated: May 24, 2007 King & Spalding LLP (Stephen A. Jones), for the plaintiff. Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Jeanne E. Davidson, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Patricia M. McCarthy, Assistant Director, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice (Stephen C. Tosini and William J. Kovatch, Jr.), for the defendant. Riggle & Craven (David A. Riggle and John D. Craven), for the proposed intervenor. This action was initiated pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1581(c) to contest the United States Department of Commerce s determinations contained in Pure Magnesium from the PRC: Final Results of 2004 2005 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 Fed. Reg. 61,019 (ITA Oct. 17, 2006) ( Final Results ). See complaint at 11. Now before the court is proposed intervenor 1 By its complaint, plaintiff, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1581(i), challenged the liquidation instructions issued in this matter. See complaint Count III. Plaintiff now avows, however, that any such action is moot . . . because Plaintiff has not pursued this claim. Pl. s Resp. to TMI s Motion to Intervene ( Pl. s Resp. ) at 1 n.1. Indeed, a review of plaintiff s Brief in Support of Motion for Court No. 06-00422 Page 2 Tianjin Magnesium International Company s ( TMI ) motion to permissively intervene in this matter pursuant to USCIT Rule 24(b). TMI argues that the court should grant its motion because TMI meets the criteria for permissive intervention in that it was a party to the underlying administrative review, that there are common questions of law and fact that directly affect it, that its intervention would not unduly delay the litigation or prejudice the parties already to the action, that its motion was timely filed, and that its intervention will not delay or impede the resolution of this matter. See Mem. in Supp. of the Mot. to Intervene by TMI ( TMI s Memorandum ) at 1 3. Plaintiff and defendant both argue that TMI s motion is not proper because the controlling statute and this Court s rules do not allow permissive intervention in actions initiated pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1581(c). See generally Pl. s Resp. (citing 19 U.S.C. § 1516a; 28 U.S.C. §§ 1581(c), 2631(j)(1)(B); USCIT R. 24(a); Ontario Food Indus. Assoc. v. United States, 30 CIT __, __ n.12, 444 F. Supp. 2d 1309, 1322 n.12 (2006) (stating that under 28 U.S.C. § 1581(c), intervention may only be sought as a matter of right. ); Geum Poong Corp. v. United States, 26 CIT 908, 909, 217 F. Supp. 2d 1342, 1343 44 (2002)), aff d without opinion 78 Fed. Appx. 113 (Fed. Cir. 2003)); Def. s Resp. to TMI s Mot. to Intervene (citing USCIT Rs. 24(a), (b); Geum Poong, 26 CIT at 909, 217 F. Supp. 2d at 1343 44)). While it may be true that TMI could have sought intervention of right earlier in this matter or initiated its own action to contest the Final Results, see TMI s Memorandum at 1, given the statutory scheme and this Court s rules and jurisprudence, the court cannot now see how TMI may, pursuant to USCIT Rule 24(b), permissively intervene in this matter. The court, therefore, denies TMI s motion, and does not accept for filing the Proposed Reply of Applicant Tianjin Judgment on the Agency Record contains no argument or support for its section 1581(i) action and, therefore, the court considers it to have been abandoned. Court No. 06-00422 Page 3 Magnesium International, Inc., Regarding the Motion for Judgement [sic] on the Agency Record of Plaintiff US Magnesium, LLC.2 SO ORDERED /s/ R. Kenton Musgrave R. Kenton Musgrave, Judge Dated: May 24, 2007 New York, New York 2 Defendant suggests that the court might consider TMI s motion to be one for intervention of right pursuant to USCIT Rule 24(a). See Def. s Resp. at 2. The court has considered this option and does not find it proper to take that action because the standards for granting permissive intervention and intervention of right are substantively different. Compare USCIT Rule 24(a) with USCIT Rule 24(b).
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