STATE OF IOWA EX REL. MILLER v. BLOCK

No. 84-2278.

771 F.2d 347 (1985)

The STATE OF IOWA, ex rel. Thomas J. MILLER, Attorney General of Iowa, Danny and Carene Gettler, H.S. and Maxine Lovett, Robert S. and Hope Mendenhall and Tom and Linda Watkins, Appellants, v. John R. BLOCK, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; the United States Department of Agriculture, an agency of the United States Government, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brent R. Appel, Des Moines, Ia., for appellants.

Ms. Wendy Keats, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and HEANEY and FAGG, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The State of Iowa (State) and several individual farmers (plaintiffs-intervenors in the district court) appeal from the district court's dismissal of their motion for a preliminary injunction to compel John Block, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (Secretary), to implement three federal agricultural disaster relief programs. For reversal, the State and the farmers argue that the district court erred, first, in declining...

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