Milgram Food Stores, Inc. v. United States

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ENJOINING FOOD STAMP DISQUALIFICATION, REMANDING CASE FOR PENALTY ASSESSMENT, AND CHARGING COSTS OF CERTAIN PROOF TO PLAINTIFF

SACHS, District Judge.

Plaintiff, the owner of several grocery stores, invokes its statutory right to a trial de novo of a Department of Agriculture decision to disqualify one store from the food stamp program for a period of sixty days. Although the Court agrees with the Department that violations of the program have been established, it concludes that the Department has acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in imposing disqualification as a…