Carter v. United States

OPINION

BRUGGINK, Judge.

This is an action for breach of an asserted contract between the United States Department of Agriculture, acting through the Commodity Credit Corporation (“CCC”), and beneficiaries of a drought relief program coordinated by the government and several states. Under the program, the federal government provided large quantities of nonfat dry milk to individual states, which distributed the nonfat dry milk to livestock producers. Before the court is defendant’s motion for summary judgment and plaintiffs1 motion for Rule 56(d) discovery. The matter is fully briefed. Oral…