BOUCHER v. U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE

No. 16-1654.

934 F.3d 530 (2019)

Rita BOUCHER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 8, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Cooley , Attorney, ALLEN WELLMAN MCNEW HARVEY, LLP, Greenfield, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Bob Wood , Shelese M. Woods , Attorneys, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Flaum and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


In the mid- to late-1990s, the late David Boucher cut down nine trees on his family farm in Indiana. For almost two decades, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has disagreed, first with Mr. Boucher and now his widow, plaintiff Rita Boucher, about whether that modest tree removal converted several acres of...

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