Legal Opinion
Teresa Speaks v. U. S. Tobacco Cooperative Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 28, 2019No. 18-1316; 18-1325PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREGORY, Chief Judge:
*280This appeal of a class-action settlement concerns a longstanding dispute between U.S. Tobacco Cooperative, Inc., an agricultural cooperative of flue-cured tobacco growers in North Carolina, and a class of plaintiffs consisting of current and former Cooperative members. From its inception in 1946, the Cooperative administered a federal price-support program designed to stabilize tobacco prices for member growers through purchasing their unsold tobacco at a guaranteed minimum price and marketing the tobacco to buyers. With a mixed record of success, the price-support…
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