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STATE OF S.C. EX REL. PATRICK v. BLOCK

Civ. A. No. 82-3172-0.

558 F.Supp. 1004 (1983)

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA ex rel. G. Bryan PATRICK, Commissioner of Agriculture, Steven W. Hamm, as South Carolina Consumer Advocate, South Carolina Farm Bureau, Frank Flowers, W. Charles McGinnis, Lawrence Weathers, Plaintiffs, Suncoast Milk Producers Cooperative, Independent Dairy Farmers Association, Inc., Tampa Independent Dairy Farmers' Association, Inc., Upper Florida Milk Producers Assn., Georgia Milk Producers, Inc., Coble Dairy Products Cooperative, Inc., Inter-State Milk Producers Cooperative, Inc., Dairymen, Inc., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. John R. BLOCK, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture and Commodity Credit Corporations, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

February 10, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford O. Koon, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., for State of S.C. and G. Bryan Patrick, Com'r of Agriculture.

Russell H. Putnam, Jr., Natalie J. Moore, S.C. Consumer Advocate Staff Attys., Columbia, S.C., for Steven W. Hamm, S.C. Consumer Advocate.

Russell W. Templeton, Columbia, S.C., for S.C. Farm Bureau, Flowers, McGinnis and Weathers.

Venable Vermont, Spartanburg, S.C., D. Paul Alagia, Jr., Richard A. Gladstone, Sydney J. Butler, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-intervenors.

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. U.S. Atty. Gen., Arthur R. Goldberg, Stephen E. Hart, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., Henry Dargan McMaster, U.S. Atty., John B. Grimball, Asst. U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C., for defendants.

Robert B. Broughton, Raleigh, N.C., for amicus curiae N.C. Farm Bureau Federation.

Sydney Berde, Berde & Hagstrom, P.A., St. Paul, Minn., for amicus curiae Associated Milk Producers, Inc.

Robert S. Bomar, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for amicus curiae Tommy T. Irvin, Com'r of Agriculture of State of Ga.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MATTHEW J. PERRY, Jr., District Judge.

In this action the plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that a "determination" made by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States on September 24, 1982 which requires a deduction of 50 cents per hundredweight from the proceeds of sales of all milk marketed commercially in the United States is in fact a regulation, promulgated without prior notice and without opportunity for public...

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