Graham v. Federal Emergency Management Agency

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the issue whether individuals may sue the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) and its officials for allegedly unlawful withdrawing of disaster relief funds while the individuals’ appeals of their applications for federal “individual and family grants” were still either pending or approved but unpaid. The district court ruled that standing and sovereign immunity doctrines barred such suits. We affirm in part and reverse in part. We hold that applicants who had not established at the time of the withdrawal that their applications were…