United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit involving farm-support payments from the Farm Service Agency, district court decision that plaintiffs must refund the payments is affirmed where: 1) the FSA's decision that it could demand repayment was not arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of agency discretion; 2) the FSA's negligent deletion of plaintiff's land tracts did not mitigate plaintiff's affirmative misrepresentations; and 3) the FSA correctly determined that an individual was a "producer" within the meaning of the regulatory provisions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2007
• Published 07/20/2007

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donna Unkel Grodner (argued), Grodner & Associates, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Janice E. Hebert, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Lafayette, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.