Harvard Univ. v. U.S. Dept. of Commerce

Full title: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, APPELLANT, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DOMESTIC…

Court: United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

Date published: Jun 8, 1978

576 F.2d 925 (C.C.P.A. 1978)

Opinion

Appeal No. 77-12.

June 8, 1978.

Eleanor D. Acheson, Cambridge, Mass., Ropes Gray, Boston, Mass., attys. of record, for Harvard University.

William Kanter, Susan M. Chalker, attys. of record, for U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Appellate Section.

Richard M. Seppa, Director, Special Import Programs Division, Domestic and International Business Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

Appeal from United States Department of Commerce.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE and MILLER, Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Both parties have agreed that the decision and judgment of this court dated December 1, 1977 in the consolidated appeals of Yale University v. Department of Commerce, Domestic and International Business Administration, Office of Import Programs, No. 76-18, and Brown University v. Department of Commerce, Domestic and International Business Administration, Office of Import Programs, 579 F.2d 626, governs the issues in this appeal, and requires reversal of the denial by appellee of appellant's Request for Duty-Free Entry of the Model EM201C Microscope.

Accordingly, the decision of the Department of Commerce is reversed.