CARPENTER'S PRODUCE v. ARNOLD

No. 98-3700.

189 F.3d 686 (1999)

CARPENTER'S PRODUCE, An Arkansas General Partnership, and Abraham Carpenter, Sr., Abraham Carpenter, Jr., Danny Carpenter, Terry Carpenter, Sr., and Albert Carpenter, Sr., Appellants, v. Mary Ann ARNOLD, Pam Bredlow, Garland Bryant, Thad Freeland, Ronald Chastain, Antonio Franco, Wayne Perryman, Gerald Steed, and Leon Steel, All as Present or Former Agents and Employees, Arkansas Consolidated Farm Services Agency, United States Department of Agriculture, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: September 3, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Hairston, New York City, argued (Roy C. Lewellen, on the brief), for Appellant.

Edward Himmelfarb, Washington, DC, argued (Barbara L. Herwig, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before BEAM and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and PANNER, District Judge.


MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in this case, Carpenter's Produce and several members of the Carpenter family, received federal disaster relief money until their benefits were reconsidered following an audit by the Department of Agriculture. After appealing that decision through several levels of administrative review and eventually having their benefits restored with interest, the Carpenters sued under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of...

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