Drew v. Lawrimore

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from three orders of the district court which compel the Secretary of Agriculture and members of various Agricultural and Conservation Service (ASC) committees to establish new boundary lines for “local administrative areas” used in the administration of the tobacco marketing program.

This action was brought by Dan Drew, a Marion County, South Carolina, flue-cured tobacco grower, in an attempt to gain a higher tobacco qiiota for his farm. Since, by statute, the size of a tobacco quota depends in part upon the “local administrative area” or “community” in…