United States DC Circuit

The district court had neither subject matter nor ancillary jurisdiction over a farmer's claim which arose from an agreement with the Department of Agriculture, settling Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Administrative Procedure Act claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/23/2003
• Decided 04/22/2003
• Published 04/22/2003

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and ROGERS and TATEL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mona Lyons argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Catherine Y. Hancock, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellee.   With her on the brief were David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General at the time the brief was filed, Wilma A. Lewis, U.S. Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Robert M. Loeb, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice.