Legal Opinion
United States v. Lennard L. Mead
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 24, 1970No. 22180PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.
Lennard Mead and the other appellees are in trouble over a series of government payments for “farmer’s conservation practices.” These payments were pursuant to a Department of Agriculture conservation program developed under the authority of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U. S.C. §§ 590a-590q. Mead was a farmer-contractor who constructed conservation practices on the farms of his mother (Violet) and the other appellees.
The basic concept of the Agricultural Conservation Program was that the federal government was to assist farmers and ranchers in…
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