Legal Opinion
Pennsylvania Food Merchants Ass'n v. Houstoun
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided January 21, 1998No. Civ.A. 1:CV-97-1276PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
CALDWELL, District Judge.
I. Introduction,
The plaintiffs are the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association, a trade association of retail food merchants, and four of its members, AM, Inc. (Pennsylvania), Save-A-Lot, Greenwich Market and Redner’s Markets, Inc.1 They allege that Pennsylvania’s plan for implementing computerized transfers of food stamp benefits violates the Food Stamp Act. See 7 U.S.C. §§ 2011-2030. The defendants are Feather 0. Houstoun, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Public Welfare, and Citicorp Services, Inc., the third party administrator of the plan.
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