Wolff v. United States, Department of Agriculture, Food & Nutrition Service

MEMORANDUM

WANGELIN, District Judge.

This is an action to review a decision of the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Court has jurisdiction pursuant to 7 U.S.C. §§ 2020 and 2022. The case was tried without a jury and the Court has carefully reviewed the entire record. The following discussion constitutes the Court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law.

The center of this controversy is a grocery store at the intersection of Fair and Lee in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1975 the store was known as the Gateway Market and was owned by Danny Copilevitz. In…