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Black Farmers' Discovery Bid Nixed In Loan Relief Suit

By Caleb Symons (April 25, 2022, 5:01 PM EDT) -- Discovery is set to wrap up by late June in a group of white farmers' racial discrimination suit against the U.S. government, after a federal judge in Texas denied a Black farmers' association's bid to conduct fact discovery and extend expert discovery by eight weeks.

In his ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor said the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund did not give "sufficient reason" for the court to open fact discovery one year after the white farmers challenged a Department of Agriculture debt relief program.

That decision upheld a scheduling order Judge O'Connor had finalized earlier this month,...

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