Legal Opinion
United States v. Sayer
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 13, 2006No. Nos. 05-1917, 05-1918PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
Ralph and Lola Sayer owned a farm in Canton, Maine. Between 1973 and 1982, a predecessor to the Farm Service Agency (“the FSA”)1 — a federal government entity — made several loans to the Sayers, taking mortgages on the farm and security interests in their farming equipment, crops, and livestock. In 1985 the Sayers filed for bankruptcy, leading in 1989 to a confirmed plan under Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 1201-1231 (2000), in which their debt of about $240,000 to the FSA was reduced to just under $104,000. The government says that this was about the…
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