Legal Opinion
Copper & Brass Fabricators Council, Inc. v. Dept. of Treasury
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 11, 1981No. Civ. 81-126PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN H. PRATT, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on defendants' motion to dismiss and plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Jurisdiction is based on 28 U.S.C. § 1331. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that plaintiff lacks standing to bring this suit.
Facts
Sometime in 1980, the Department of the Treasury announced that it planned to alter the composition of the one-cent coin from 95% copper and 5% zinc 1 to a copper-plated zinc blank containing 2.4% copper and 97.6% zinc. The Treasury Department relied for authority for this change on 31 U.S.C. §…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Cort v. AshSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. CampSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Hansen v. Finn (In Re Curry & Sorensen, Inc.)United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Copper & Brass Fabricators Council, Inc. v. Department of the TreasuryCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1982
- Copper & Brass Fabricators Council, Inc. v. Department of the TreasuryCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1982