BERMUDEZ v. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Civ. A. No. 1534-72.

348 F.Supp. 1279 (1972)

Mercedes Ortiz BERMUDEZ et al., Plaintiffs, v. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia, Civil Division.

October 5, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald F. Pollack, Roger A. Schwartz, New York City, John R. Kramer, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Robert Werdig, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOHN LEWIS SMITH, Jr., District Judge.

Plaintiffs challenge the federal food stamp program policy of refusing to issue retroactive stamps to eligible households wrongly denied stamps due to administrative errors. The federal food stamp program has had a turbulent history. Retroactive benefits have been alternately denied by two administrative instructions and reinstated by a statutory...

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