The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Not surprisingly, that means that FNS is required to follow regulations and guidance issued by USDA. This fundamental concept appears to have been for…
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Tags: ALERT System, Charge Letter, Excluded Parties List, Exclusion, FNS, Food and Nutrition Service, Retail Food Store, Retailer, SAM List, SNAP, SNAP retailers, Stewart D. Fried, System for Award Management, Trafficking, USDA
In a major victory for grocers, the United States Supreme Court (in a 6-3 decision) held that store level SNAP retailer data is exempt from disclosure under Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). Exemption 4 precludes the disclos…
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Owners of supermarkets and convenience stores are generally not aware that one of the perils of participating in the SNAP program may be placement on the General Services Administration’s System for Award Management list of excluded and disqualifie…
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Earlier this year, FNS updated its Training Guide for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailers. This 18 page booklet is required reading for owners and managers of the more than 260,000 groceries, convenience stores, chain drug stor…
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USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) may impose civil monetary penalties (CMP) on retailers that are determined to have violated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) regulations. These penalties are most frequently imposed against…
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Small grocery stores and specialty retail food stores that sell hot foods are facing an unprecedented threat to their businesses. Not from competition or due to rising costs. Instead, thousands of small fish and seafood markets in impoverished ur…
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Tags: CBI, Confidential Business Information, Cooked Food, Crab Retailers, crabs, Final Agency Decision, FNS, Food and Nutrition Service, foodstamps.attorney, foodstamps.lawyer, Grocery Stores, Heated Food, Hot Food, John Mautz, Maryland, Maryland blue crabs, POS, Restaurants, SNAP, SNAP retailers, Sonny Perdue, Stewart D. Fried, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
In a highly unusual decision, a Federal District Court judge in Maryland granted summary judgment in a food stamp licensing appeal brought by a Baltimore convenience store without permitting the retailer to conduct any discovery whatsoever. In Nega…
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Tags: ALERT System, Attorney, Congress, Discovery, EBT, FNS, Food, Food and Nutrition Act, Food Stamps, foodstamps.attorney, foodstamps.lawyer, Judicial Review, Law Firm, Lawyer, Litigation, Maryland, Negash, Nutrition, OFW Law, Retailer, SNAP, Stewart D. Fried, Sunoco Food Mart, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Trafficking
Congress Bars FNS from Enforcing Portions of its Enhancing Retailer Standards in SNAP Final Rule
Federal agencies are viewed by many as possessing immense power over regulated businesses. This is especially true at the Food and Nutrition Service (…
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Virtually all grocery stores, convenience stores, and supermarkets sell hot foods. Nearly all sell cold prepared foods as well. Most of the more than 260,000 retail food stores authorized by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (“FNS”) to acce…
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Tags: Carryout, FNS, Food, Food and Nutrition Service, Food Stamps, foodstamps.attorney, foodstamps.lawyer, Grocery Store, Nutrition, Prepared Food, Restaurant, Retailer, SNAP, Stewart D. Fried, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
For more than 20 years, Federal law has expressly provided that states may test welfare recipients for use of controlled substances free from interference of federal agencies. 21 U.S.C. §862(b). Relying upon this Congressional enactment, Wisconsin…
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Tags: Act 55, Drug Test, FNS, Food Stamps, foodstamps.attorney, foodstamps.lawyer, Law Firm, Lawyer, Scott Walker, SNAP, SNAP Eligibility, Stewart D. Fried, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Vilsack, Welfare, Wisconsin
