Legal Opinion
Robert E. Parchman Virgil R. (Ray) Lemons Jack E. Hamilton v. United States Department of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 27, 1988No. 87-3701PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Robert Parchman, Virgil (Ray) Lemons and Jack Hamilton (the stockyard operators) are partners. They operate stockyards in Cumberland City, Tennessee and Paris, Tennessee. Their business is to weigh livestock and sell the animals on behalf of their owners at public auction. Although the buyers and sellers of livestock transact business on the basis of the animals’ weight, the stockyard operators receive a set commission of $7.00 a head for their services.
On May 28, 1987, the Judicial Officer for the Department of Agriculture (JO) 1 upheld the decision of an administrative…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Consolidated Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Butz v. Glover Livestock Commission Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1973
- First National Monetary Corporation and Michael Bivins v. A.J. Weinberger and Commodity Futures Trading CommissionCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
- Mattes v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
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