Evelyn Bliek v. Charles Palmer

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

Evelyn Bliek and Tish Eberline filed this class action suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief. The plaintiffs contended, among other things, that the defendants violated the plaintiffs’ due process rights by failing to notify them of the state’s discretionary authority to settle, adjust, compromise, or deny claims arising out of overissuances of food stamps due solely to agency error. The district court 1 granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and permanently enjoined the defendants from initiating or continuing efforts…