Gloria Stewart, Etc. v. Earl L. Butz, Secretary of Agriculture, and Gail Huecker, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Economic Security

Mrs. Gloria Stewart filed this class action, alleging that she was denied her right to purchase food stamps during the month of May 1972, for the stated reason that she had purchased an amount of food stamps in excess of her quota for the preceding month. There is no dispute on the record before this court that Mrs. Stewart was wrongfully denied the right to purchase food stamps during the month in question. The District Court ordered the Secretary of Agriculture to provide Mrs. Stewart with retroactive food stamp credits. The same relief was granted to any member of her class (recipients of…