A federal judge in California late Thursday agreed to temporarily stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture from acting on warning letters threatening to withhold federal money for food-assistance from states that refused to turn over information sought by the agency.
U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney found the states were likely to show that federal law prohibits them from disclosing personal information demanded in formal warnings and, consequently, that the federal government acted in a manner contrary to law.
The judge issued the . . .
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