DANVILLE TOBACCO ASSOCIATION v. FREEMAN

No. 18718.

351 F.2d 832 (1965)

The DANVILLE TOBACCO ASSOCIATION, a corporation, et al., Appellants, v. Orville L. FREEMAN, Secretary of Agriculture, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 30, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benjamin W. Dulany, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Edmund D. Campbell, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Miss Sylvia Bacon, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Judah Best, Asst. U. S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Mr. William H. Willcox, Asst. U. S. Atty. at the time the record was filed, also entered appearances for appellee.

Before EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and WASHINGTON and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.


EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellants, tobacco warehousemen and their trade associations in Danville, Virginia and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, asked for a declaratory judgment that the Secretary of Agriculture's regulations adopted in 1958 under the Tobacco Inspection Act, 7 U.S.C. § 511m, and the Commodity Credit Corporation Act, 15 U.S.C. § 714b, were invalid, and that the Secretary should have granted...

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