United States Ninth Circuit

Under the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, 8 USC 1601 et seq., the Secretary of Agriculture's notification to congress of a proposed action to waive provisions of the Act followed by sixty days of congressional inaction does not automatically make the proposed action law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/19/2001
• Published 03/19/2001

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HUG, TROTT, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jay H. Sorenson, Saipan, MP, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Lochabay, Saipan, MP, for the CNMI defendants-appellees., Michael Jay Singer and Michael S. Raab, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the federal defendants-appellees.