Legal Opinion
Patrick Esch v. Clayton K. Yeutter, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 25, 1989No. 87-5340PublishedCited by 286 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROBINSON.
SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:
The Esch family has farmed in the United States for more than a century. Currently, nine brothers and sisters own a 20,000-acre wheat and corn farm in Baca County, Colorado. They challenged in the District Court a decision by the Department of Agriculture to partially suspend their participation in two federal farm subsidy programs. 1 That court overruled the Department’s objection that subject-matter jurisdiction lay in the United States Claims Court 2 and, after supplementing the agency record…
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