Martino v. United States Department of Agriculture

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROBINSON.

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners attack orders of the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service of the Department of Agriculture1 temporarily debarring them from employment by any licensee under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.2 The or*372ders rest on findings by a presiding hearing officer that Tomatoes, Inc., a licensee, had flagrantly and repeatedly violated the Act, and that petitioners had been “responsibly connected” because each owned more than ten percent of the licensee’s stock.3 Our review…