Leibowitz on Trade: AIIS Takes Its Case to the Supreme Court

Trade attorney and Steel Market Update contributor Lewis Leibowitz offers the following update on events in Washington:

The lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Section 232 took an interesting turn earlier this week, with plaintiffs’ petition for immediate Supreme Court review of the case, without passing through the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ordinarily, the Federal Circuit would receive briefs and hear oral argument, decide the appeal and only then would the case go before the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs articulated their reasons to forgo that customary step in a petition for certiorari docketed in the Supreme Court yesterday (American Institute for International Steel v. United States, Supreme Court Docket 18-1317).