Imperial Carpet Mills, Inc., Murray Sobel and Richard G. Greenberg, Plaintiffs v. Consumer Products Safety Commission of the United States of America

Plaintiffs filed suit in federal district court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from a threatened proceeding by the Consumer Products Safety Commission. The district court held that the complaint did not present a controversy sufficiently ripe for judicial intervention and dismissed the action. Applying the ripeness standards established in Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner, 387 U.S. 136, 87 S.Ct. 1507, 18 L.Ed.2d 681 (1967), we affirm.

In December 1976, the Government, on behalf of the Consumer Products Safety Commission (the Commission) filed condemnation actions in four different…