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Obstruction of Justice: References


  1. USDA 1998. Economic Res. Service, USDA, "Minority & Women Farmers in the U.S.," Agricultural Outlook, May 1998, cited in Kristol Bradley Ginapp, "Jim 'USDA' Crow: Symptomatic Discrimination in Agriculture," 8 Drake J. Agric. L. 237, (Spring 2003).
  2. NCSF 1998. USDA National Commission on Small Farms, "A Time to Act", Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms, January 1998, at Recommendation 1.22.
  3. Pigford 1999. Pigford v. Glickman, 185 F.R.D. 82 (D.D.C. 1999).
  4. USDA 1997. USDA Civil Rights Action Team, "Civil Rights at the United States Department of Agriculture, A Report by the Civil Rights Action Team," February 1997.
  5. Pigford Monitor 2004. Office of the Monitor, "National Statistics Regarding Pigford v. Veneman Track A Implementation as of July 12, 2004," available at www.pigfordmonitor.org/stats/ (last visited July 18, 2004).
  6. Pigford Arbitrator 2004. Michael K. Lewis, Arbitrator's Sixth Report on the Late-Claim Petition Process, June 4, 2004, available at www.pigfordmonitor.org/arbrpts/ (last visited July 18, 2004).
  7. Pigford Monitor 2004a. Office of the Monitor, Email from Anne Pagel Newman, June 11, 2004.
  8. Pigford 2002. Pigford v. Veneman, 292 F.3d 918 (D.C. Cir. 2002).
  9. Pigford Arbitrator 2001. Michael K. Lewis, Arbitrator's Sixth Report on the Late-Claim Petition Process, November 14, 2001, available at www.pigfordmonitor.org/arbrpts/ (last visited July 18, 2004).
  10. Pigford Monitor 2003. Office of the Monitor, "Claimant and Claimant Attorney Access to USDA Documents," October 1, 2003, www.pigfordmonitor.org/updates/update07.htm (last visited July 18, 2004).
  11. Pigford Monitor 2002. Randi Ilyse Roth, "Monitor's Report and Recommendations Regarding Implementation of the Consent Decree for the Period of September 1, 2000 Through December 31, 2001," September 4, 2002, available at www.pigfordmonitor.org/reports/ (last visited July 18, 2004).
  12. Pigford Facilitator 2003. Poorman-Douglas Corporation, Email from Nicole Fahey, June 9, 2003.
  13. Legal Times 2002. Jennifer Myers, "Rough Terrain," Legal Times, November 21, 2002.
  14. Legal Times 2002a. Jennifer Myers, "For Law Firms, A Huge Pro Bono Effort," Legal Times, November 21, 2002.
  15. Pigford 2002a. Pigford v. Veneman, 182 F.Supp.2d 50 (D.D.C. 2002).
  16. USDA 2003. USDA, FY 2003 Budget Summary.
  17. Brendan DeMelle Interview with Calvin King, April 8, 2004.
  18. Brendan DeMelle Interview with Linwood Brown, May 14, 2004.
  19. Brendan DeMelle Interview with Leroy McCray, May 4, 2004.
  20. Brendan DeMelle Interview with Leon Pulley, May 4, 2004.
  21. Brendan Demelle Interview with Alan Diggs, July 12, 2004.
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