Ron Steen v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the USDA’s decision to define “net fishing income” as the net fishing income reported on a TAA applicant’s tax return was reasonable
• emphasizing that the USDA’s definition of “net farm income” must be given “broad deference”
• implying there may be instances where reliance upon tax return information may present a distorted picture of net farm/fishing income for TAA purposes
• affirming the trial court’s judgment upholding USDA’s denial of TAA application because plaintiff failed to show that his net income decreased from the pre-adjustment year to the marketing year
• “when Congress used the broader term ‘net farm income,’ it meant to encompass income from all farm products,” i.e., only the income from products of farm activity
• a determination of net farm income “is not to be made solely on the basis of tax return information if other information is relevant to determining the producer’s net income....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).