Mitchell v. Johanns

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PRATT, District Judge.

In 1998, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) found that Plaintiffs Maurice D. Mitchell, Sr., Marvin Mitchell, and Marlene Mitchell, together with Steve Agan and George Paul, devised a scheme to evade limitations placed upon the amount of farm program benefits they could receive from the federal government in 1997. All three Plaintiffs repaid the farm program benefits they had received for the years 1997 and 1998, as they were required to do under the applicable penalty regulation. In 2002, the USDA determined that the three…