HIATT GRAIN & FEED, INC. v. BERGLAND

No. 77-4161.

446 F.Supp. 457 (1978)

HIATT GRAIN & FEED, INC., on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. Hon. Bob BERGLAND, Secretary of Agriculture, United States of America, Defendant, Ralph Ball, Benjamin Duell, Ray Madden, Kaye Morison, Godfrey Strasburg, Bill Turrentine, Maurice Foster, Gregory Blick, Stanley Schmitt, Robert Bowman, Howard A. Young, Larry Yost, Leo Paulsen, Andy Plett and Dwight A. Klinger, and Farmers Cooperative Union of Sterling, Kansas, an agricultural cooperative, and Far-Mar-Co., Inc., an agricultural cooperative, Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

January 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Curtis, P. John Owen, Morrison, Hecker, Curtis, Kuder & Parrish, Kansas City, Mo., John Q. Royce, Tom W. Hampton, Hampton, Royce, Engleman & Nelson, Salina, Kan., for plaintiff.

James P. Buchele, U. S. Atty., D. Kan., Topeka, Kan., Griffin B. Bell, Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dennis G. Linder, William Z. Elliott, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Mary K. Briscoe, Asst. U. S. Atty., Topeka, Kan., for defendant.

Robert L. Gowdy, Kansas City, Mo., for Ralph Ball, Duell, Madden Morrison, Strasburg, Turrentine, Foster, Blick, Schmitt, Bowman, Young, Yost, Paulsen, Plett, Klinger, Farmers Cooperative Union of Sterling, Ks. and Far-Mar-Co., Inc.

Leonard O. Thomas, Weeks, Thomas, Lysaught, Bingham & Mustain, Kansas City, Kan., Donald E. Graham, Washington, D. C., for National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.

Charles D. McAtee, Topeka, Kan., for National Council et al.


ROGERS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

On July 14, and August 9, 1977, the Secretary of Agriculture, Bob Bergland, published amendments to 7 C.F.R. §§ 1421 and 1425. 42 Fed.Reg. 36234, et seq., and 40175, et seq. (1977). The basic purpose of the amendments was to add barley, corn, grain sorghum, oats, rye, and wheat to the list of commodities for which approved cooperative marketing associations...

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