Legal Opinion
Bottoms Farm Partnership v. Sonny Perdue
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 17, 2018No. 17-2164PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ERICKSON, Circuit Judge.
Bottoms Farm Partnership, Bell Family Partnership, Bell Planting Company, and Nez Farms, Inc. ("Appellants" or "farm entities") appeal from a grant of summary judgment by the district court 1 deferring to an insurance policy interpretation made by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation ("FCIC") and a determination regarding the FCIC's authority made by the Risk Management Agency ("RMA"). We affirm.
I. Background
The Appellants are rice farmers in southeast Missouri. They each planted rice in Stoddard County during the 2012 crop year. The rice crops were insured under…
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