Dew v. Hardin

ORDER

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

Plaintiff in this action seeks review of a final decision of the Secretary of Agriculture denying plaintiff’s application for the service of an additional set of inspectors for the 1970 selling season for flue-cured tobacco in the auction warehouse in Mullins, South Carolina. The court’s jurisdiction of the controversy is provided by the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. § 701 et seq.) Plaintiff who is operator of a tobacco warehouse and president of the Mullins Warehouse Association seeks declaratory relief to the effect that the refusal of the Secretary to…