UNITED STATES v. MEAD

No. 22180.

426 F.2d 118 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Lennard L. MEAD et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Schaitman (argued), Alan S. Rosenthal, Howard J. Kanshner, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Larry L. Dier, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

David Kinley (argued), Wm. L. Callender, Oxnard, Cal., Wm. L. Boyes, Camarillo, Cal., Paul B. Noel, Thousand Oaks, Cal., Carl A. Stutsman, Jr., of Hill, Farrer & Burrill, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees.

Before CHAMBERS and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges, and WEIGEL, District Judge.


CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Lennard Mead and the other appellees are in trouble over a series of government payments for "farmer's conservation practices." These payments were pursuant to a Department of Agriculture conservation program developed under the authority of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U. S.C. §§ 590a-590q. Mead was a farmer-contractor who constructed conservation practices on the farms of his mother (Violet) and the other...

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