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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (766551)	1/28/2014 10:15:34 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575938

The "brilliant" CJ falls back on the "unicorns and fairy dust" cliché when he is unable to refute a superior argument....

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (766551)	1/28/2014 11:24:35 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By joseffy Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1575938

Court rejects secrecy for food stamp numbers By JOSH GERSTEIN \| 1/28/14 12:30 PM EST A federal appeals court has rejected the Obama Administration's attempt to keep secret the government's data on how much individual retailers take in from the food stamp program. In a ruling Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit turned down the U.S. Department of Agriculture's arguments that a provision in federal law protecting retailers' application information from disclosure also barred disclosure of how much the feds pay out to specific businesses. "Because the retailer spending information is not 'submit[ted]' by 'an applicant retail food store or wholesale food concern...' the information is not exempt from disclosure. The department, not any retailer, generates the information, and the underlying data is 'obtained' from third-party payment processors, not from individual retailers," Chief Judge William Jay Riley wrote in an opinion joined by Judges Steven Colloton and Jane Kelly. Cont... politico.com