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Seventh Circuit· 12/23/2010

Fells v. United States

Citations

  • 627 F.3d 1250
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 26108
  • 2010 WL 5186064

How courts have described this case

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  • discussing the legal landscape after Redmond and concluding that “the plaintiff must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the violations found by the Agency did not occur”
  • affirming a finding of trafficking based on data showing that store regularly processed purported SNAP transactions for large amounts that were suspicious given the store’s inventory and size and data “about customer purchasing patterns at surrounding stores”
  • collecting cases holding store owner bears burden of proof

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Judges: Ripple, Manion, Sykes

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