Ricoh Co., Ltd. v. International Trade Commission

NOTE: ThiS order is nonp1'ecede11tia1. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit RICOH COMPANY, LTD., RICOH AMERICAS CORPORATION, AND RICOH ELECTRONICS, INC., Appellants, V. INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION, Appellee. _ and ` ' . OKI DATA CORPORATION AND- - OKI DATA AMERICAS, INC., Interven,0rs. 2011-1236 On appeal from the United States International Trade Commission in Investigation No. 337-TA-69O. ON MOTION ORDER Upon consideration of the unopposed motion of Oki Data Corporation and Oki Data Americas, Ino. for leave to intervene, __ _ KEEFE V. US 2 The United States moves to summarily affirm the judgments of the United States Court of Federal Claims in the above-captioned appeals.* The appellants oppose. The United States replies The appellants move to con- tinue to stay these cases pending the disposition by the United States Supreme Court of petitions for writ of certiorari related to this court’s combined decision in Prati v. United States, 2008-5117, 603 F.3d 1301 (Fed. Cir. 2010) and Deegan, v. United Stcctes, 2008-5129, 603 F.3d 1301. In the alternative, the appellants move to stay these cases pending disposition of two additional repre- sentative cases to resolve what appellants assert are remaining unresolved issues. = . _ On June 22, 2009, this court stayed proceedings in the above-captioned cases pending disposition of two repre- sentative cases, Prati v. United States, 2008-5117 and Deegan v. United States, 2008-5129. ln these two cases, the taxpayers claimed that they were due refunds on two grounds: first, they argued that the lnternal Revenue Service assessed tax and interest after the statute of limitations expired Second, the taxpayers argued they were due refunds of penalty interest paid because their underpayments were not attributable to "tax motivated transactions." This court affirmed the Court of Federal Claims’ determination that the taxpayers claims for refunds were attributable to partnership items and thus not within that court’s jurisdiction Summary affirmance of a case is appropriate "when the position of one party is so clearly correct as a matter of law that no substantial question regarding the outcome of the appeal exists.” Joshua v. United States, 17 F.3d 378, 380 (Fed. Cir. 1994). In the above-captioned cases, the appellants claims are the same as the claims asserted ' For purposes of this order, we use a combined cap- tion. The cases are not consolidated