United States First Circuit

In a suit alleging that an agricultural program violated plaintiffs' due process rights, judgment for defendants on the pleadings is affirmed where plaintiffs were unable to demonstrate that they had a protected property interest in tax credits and financial assistance or that, assuming a protected property interest, there was a procedural due process violation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/12/2008
• Published 03/12/2008

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before HOWARD, Circuit Judge, STAHL and SILER, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Noel Avilés-González for appellants., Juan P. Rivera-Roman and Juan P. Rivera-Roman Law Firm on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rosa Elena Pérez-Agosto, Assistant Solicitor General, Department of Justice, with whom Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts, Solicitor General, Mariana D. Negrón-Vargas, Deputy Solicitor General, and Maite D. Oronoz-Rodrìguez, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.