EMERGENCY DISASTER LOAN ASS'N, INC. v. BLOCK

No. 79-4765.

653 F.2d 1267 (1981)

EMERGENCY DISASTER LOAN ASSOCIATION, INC., a Washington non-profit corporation, and John Kortus, representing the Class, Plaintiffs-Appellants. v. John R. BLOCK, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States; Samuel R. Pierce, Secretary of HUD of the United States; H. Allan Brock, National Administrator of Federal Farm Home Administration of the United States; James E. Lee, Director of the Emergency Loan Division of Federal Farm Home Administration of the United States; George A. Lincoln, Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness of the United States; and Michael Horan, Administrator of Federal Farm Home Administration of the State of Washington, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 17, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Bury, Bantz, Klobucher & Clemons, Spokane, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert M. Sweeney, Asst. U.S. Atty., Spokane, Wash., for defendants-appellees.

Before CHOY and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges, and FRYE, District Judge.


CHOY, Circuit Judge:

Appellants appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court denying their claim for a writ of mandamus. We affirm.

I. Facts

The appellant Emergency Disaster Loan Association (EDLA) is a non-profit corporation representing a group of farmers and ranchers in northeastern Washington who failed to apply for emergency assistance loans from the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) during the period of 1973-74 when the...

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