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UNITED STATES v. JON-T CHEMICALS, INC.

No. 84-1325.

768 F.2d 686 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JON-T CHEMICALS, INC., and Lewis M. Overton, Jr., Receiver for Jon-T Chemicals, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 16, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brantly Harris, Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

William French Smith, Atty. Gen., William S. Liebman, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, POLITZ, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This is the latest installment in a series of cases that threatens to become, in its own small way, a latter-day Jarndyce and Jarndyce.1 The cases arose as a result of fraudulent misrepresentations by John H. Thomas, Lonnie D. Clark, and Jon-T Farms, Inc., to obtain agricultural subsidies under the Upland Cotton Program.2 Initially, the government sought and obtained criminal...

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