JOHNSON v. VILSACK

No. 15-1796.

833 F.3d 948 (2016)

Curtis JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Department of Agriculture, Tom VILSACK, Secretary (USDA); Gary Cochran; Hendra Woodfork; Shirley Moore; Dotson Collins; James G. Culpepper; Dianna Shook; Linda Newkirk; Dennis L. Stephens; Linda Baker; Thomas Brown; M. Terry Johnson; John Doe; Jane Does, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: August 18, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who filed a brief and presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Ronald Carl Wilson , of West Memphis, AR.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was Richard M. Pence, Jr. , AUSA, of Little Rock, AR. The following attorney appeared on the appellee brief: Jane W. Duke , of Little Rock, AR.

Before GRUENDER and KELLY, Circuit Judges, and ERICKSEN, District Judge.


This appeal follows the district court's dismissal of Curtis Johnson's statutory and constitutional claims against the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Secretary of Agriculture, and various Department of Agriculture employees. Although we agree with some of the district court's bases for dismissal, we disagree that taking...

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