ABDELAZIZ v. U.S., THROUGH DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE

No. 201, Docket 87-6035.

837 F.2d 95 (1988)

In the Matter of Farid M. ABDELAZIZ, Co-Owner, Abe Abraham, Co-Owner, and Midland Meat Town, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Acting Through the DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Lawler, DeWitt, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Constance A. Wynn, Appellate Staff Atty., Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., U.S. Atty., N.D.N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y., Robert S. Greenspan, Appellate Staff Atty., Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before TIMBERS, WINTER and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Farid M. Abdelaziz and Abe Abraham, at all pertinent times sole or co-owners of Midland Meat Town, Inc., personally purchased at a fifty percent discount food stamps for cash from an undercover police officer so their store could redeem the stamps at a profit. As a result, the Food and Nutrition Service ("FNS") disqualified them individually and their store from the food stamp program, a decision upheld by the district court. In this appeal...

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