Ford Motor Co. v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

GOLDBERG, Senior Judge:

On July 21, 2006, Plaintiff Ford Motor Co. (“Ford”) filed a motion, under USCIT Rule 59(e), for reconsideration of the Court’s June 21, 2006 decision Ford Motor Co. v. United States, 30 CIT_, 435 F. Supp. 2d 1324 (2006) (“Ford Motor Co. I”) and the accompanying judgment order that dismissed Ford’s case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. In that decision, the Court had found that the precondition for the Court’s 28 U.S.C. § 1581(a) jurisdiction - i.e., a valid protest under 19 U.S.C. § 1514 - was absent and the Court therefore lacked subject matter…