Schott Optical Glass, Inc. v. United States

FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the United States Court of International Trade in Schott Optical Glass, Inc. v. United States, 587 F.Supp. 69, sustaining the Customs Service’s classification of the appellant’s imported glass. That court held that a prior decision upholding the identical classification of similar glass the appellant imported was stare decisis, and it refused to allow the appellant to introduce evidence designed to show that the prior decision was clearly erroneous. We reverse and remand to allow the appellant to produce that evidence.

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