Kinion v. United States

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Aubrey and Lois Kinion (the Kinions) appeal the district court’s1 denial of their summary judgment motion and the grant of summary judgment to the United States. This case involves the interpretation of the Farmers Home Administration’s (FmHA) regulations that implement the debt restructuring and loan servicing provisions of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 (the Act). Because we hold that the regulations require state director approval of a proposed buyout and that the FmHA’s failure to meet the procedural requirements of the statute did not divest the FmHA of…