Court Dismisses Teamsters’ Suit Over Mexican Trucks

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=21747

Updated: 4/20/2009 4:20:00 PM

A federal appeals court Monday dismissed a lawsuit by the Teamsters union and other groups who had challenged a cross-border trucking program with Mexico, saying the suit was moot because the Obama administration and Congress ended the program.

The San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit made the ruling, in which it said the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration terminated the program that had allowed some Mexican carriers access to U.S. roads beyond a designated border zone.

The court wrote that while the case was pending, Congress and the Obama administration passed a law that ended the program, and that “any new pilot program . . . would likely present different questions” related to the groups’ concerns over safety and other issues.

President Obama last week met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Mexico City, saying he was hopeful the two could come to an acceptable resolution of the cross-border issue. (Click here for related subscriber-content story.)

Mexico retaliated with tariffs on U.S. goods after the program was ended. Besides the Teamsters, petitioners in the suit included Public Citizen and the Sierra Club.

FULL story at link.

[Jim Sagle]

1. Psst...the program's the same, only the names have been changed...to protect the globalists.

But hey, we all knew that. ;(