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172164P.pdf   07/17/2018  Bottoms Farm Partnership  v.  Sonny Perdue
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-2164
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Federal Crop Insurance. The clear language of the Federal Crop Insurance Act indicated Congress intended to give the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation extensive and broad authority, and that broad grant, as well as the specific authority over the provisions of insurance and insurance contract found in 5 U.S.C. Secs. 1505 and 1506, leads the court to conclude that it must give the Corporation's interpretation of the special provision dealing with rice insurance substantial deference; the Corporation's construction of the policy language is not plainly erroneous, arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law; the Risk Management Authority's determination that the Corporation was required to provide an interpretation of the special provision of the policy was not clearly erroneous, arbitrary, capricious or an abuse of discretion.