Legal Opinion
Lopez v. Espy
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 9, 1996No. 94-15538PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
D..W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:
Isabel Lopez, on behalf of herselí and all others similarly situated, seeks to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Director of the California Department of Social Services from offsetting past erroneous underissuances and overissuances in food stamp allotments against one another when calculating the amount that the state agency must restore to the recipient. The district court denied her petition. Because this poli*1097cy contradicts the plain language of the Food Stamp Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 2011-2032, we reverse.
BACKGROUND
The Food Stamp Program was enacted in…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 3289, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 5376, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8164 Isabel Lopez v. Michael Espy, in His Official Capacity as United States Secretary of Agriculture Eloise Anderson, as Director of the California State Department of Social ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
- Fred A. Whitaker v. State of California Lynne Yoshimara U.S. Department of AgricultureCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997