Court of International Trade decisions during 2010 under 28 U.S.C. (section) 1581(i) residual jurisdiction

CIT decisions under its § 1581(i) residual jurisdiction during 2010, as in past years, are noteworthy for presenting particularly arcane legal issues. One group of cases addresses the availability of judicial review under residual jurisdiction, encountering new factual patterns and requiring probing analysis of complex statutory frameworks. Other cases under the court's residual jurisdiction reach the merits, but remain arcane because they arise in obscure corners of customs and international trade law. In 2010 these decisions on the merits address issues in customs bond law and the liquidation of antidumping entries. In its most noteworthy residual jurisdiction case during the year, the CIT held that it possesses supplemental jurisdiction to hear a private plaintiffs claims against private defendants, as long as those claims are within the same case or controversy as the plaintiff's claims against the government. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]