The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin and McEachin & Gee LLP File Discrimination Suit For Approximately 2,700 Additional African American Farmers Against United States Department of Agriculture

Second Discrimination Suit Filed Against USDA Brings Their Total Number of Clients Who Have Filed Suit To More Than 3,500 African American Farmers.

Durham, NC -- The afterward account was issued today by the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin:

The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, and McEachin & Gee LLP filed an added accusation on Friday, June 20, 2008 on account of about 2,700 clients, bringing their absolute amount of African American audience who accept filed clothing claiming bigotry adjoin the federal government to added than 3,500.

On June 3, 2008, the firms ahead appear the accusation they filed on account of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) and hundreds of the about forty thousand African American farmers. The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin and McEachin & Gee LLP accept abutting calm to action for their clients, and seek their long-overdue befalling for a assurance of their claims based on their merits.

Despite the Court's absorbed to accommodate advantage to atramentous farmers who were victims of bigotry based aloft the aboriginal Pigford action apropos government bigotry adjoin African American farmers of April 14,1999, tens of bags of African American farmers never had a adventitious to accept their claims reviewed. Enacting legislation proposed in allotment by Senator Barack Obama, Congress has bigger reopened Pigford v. Glickman and accustomed atramentous farmers who filed backward claims of ancestral bigotry in the Pigford case to go advanced with a new case to accept a assurance on the merits. (The Food and Energy Security Act of 2008, or the Farm Bill.)

The firms accept set up an advisory blast band at 1-866-472-7826, accessible 24 hours a day, 7 canicule a week. Also accessible is an advisory website, http://www.blackfarmerclaims.com, area advocate Donald Gee discusses his own adolescence alive on a black-owned farm.

The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, and McEachin & Gee LLP are the alone firms accustomed by Dr. John Boyd and the National Black Farmers' Association. The firms collectively represent over 40,000 atramentous farmers. For added advice amuse acquaintance Eric Sanchez at 1 (800) 220-7321 or by email at publicrelations @ farrin.com.