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THURMOND v. BLOCK

No. 85-1172.

640 F.Supp. 588 (1986)

Emily R. THURMOND, Individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. John R. BLOCK, Secretary of Agriculture for the United States of America; and Marguerite Sallee, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Human Services; Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, E.D.

June 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leland Dale Wilson, West Tenn. Legal Services, Dyersburg, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Richard Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., W. Hickman Ewing, Jr., U.S. Atty., Alice Howze, Asst. U.S. Atty., Memphis, Tenn., Sheila Lieber and Don J. Moss, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., for Mr. Block.

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen., Jim G. Creecy, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Dianne Stamey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for Ms. Sallee.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS

TODD, District Judge.

Plaintiff Emily R. Thurmond filed this action on August 19, 1985, alleging that the Food Stamp Act, 7 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq., as it applies to her, is unconstitutional. Purporting to represent a class of persons similarly affected by the allegedly unconstitutional provision of the act, plaintiff named as defendants the Secretary of Agriculture for the United States and...

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