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052321P.pdf   03/16/2006  Ace Property and  v.  Federal Crop Ins.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-2321
   Southern District of Iowa   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Hansen and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - breach of contract. District court erred in finding that
   the exhaustion requirement of 7 U.S.C. Sec. 6912(e) (the Federal Crop
   Insurance Reform and Department of Agriculture Act of 1994) is
   jurisdictional and in dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction; however,
   the district court's alternative finding that the case should be dismissed
   because the plaintiff insurers had not exhausted their administrative
   remedies was correct, and the dismissal of the case is affirmed.