MALDONADO v. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

No. 96-70657.

154 F.3d 1086 (1998)

Ernest MALDONADO, Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; United States of America, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Choate, Jr., Choate & Choate, Los Angeles, California, for petitioner.

Libbi J. Finelsen, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Before: SCHROEDER and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges, and WHYTE, District Judge.


SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Ernest Maldonado worked for decades in a Los Angeles produce company where he rose from a job loading and unloading trucks to the position of head of the vegetable department. In 1990, new owners purchased the company, looted it, and made Maldonado titular president during the company's collapse. Maldonado here seeks review of the Department of Agriculture's administrative order finding that he was "responsibly connected" to the company under...

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