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JAY v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Civ. A. No. 3-2885-C.

308 F.Supp. 100 (1969)

Annie Bell JAY, Louise Cochran, Willie D. Doss, Louise Becks, Bessie Mae Davis, Jettie Redic and Tomas Sanchez, Individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Orville L. Freeman, Individually and in his capacity as Secretary of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, S. R. Smith, as Administrator of the Consumer Marketing Service, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Burton G. Hackney, as Commissioner of the Texas State Department of Public Welfare, and William M. Herdon, as Director of the Commodity Distribution Division, Texas Department of Public Welfare.

United States District Court N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

December 30, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ed J. Polk, San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, San Francisco, Cal., Douglas Larson, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs; Ronald F. Pollack, Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law, New York City, of counsel.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Pat Bailey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., Eldon B. Mahon, U. S. Atty., Martha Joe Stroud, Asst. U. S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., John Harris, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., Wm. D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harland F. Leathers, Robert N. Ford, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

FINDINGS OF FACT CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND COURT ORDER

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, Jr., District Judge.

This action was brought on November 19, 1968 by seven indigent individuals for a declaratory judgment (pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201, 2202) and injunctive relief (pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343, 1361 and 5 U.S.C. § 702). Plaintiffs properly brought this suit as a class action in behalf of themselves and all of those needy and hungry...

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