Legal Opinion
Watson v. Perdue
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 17, 2019No. Civil Action No. 2019-1633Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WAYNE WATSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 1:19-cv-01633 (TNM) SONNY PERDUE, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION For generations, an African American family has farmed cotton and soybeans in the Mississippi River Delta near Mound Bayou, Mississippi. In the 1980s and 90s, the Watsons pledged their farmland as security for various loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, including a Farm Ownership Loan. That Farm Ownership Loan is delinquent, and the Agency has…
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