"one of McKinney's lawyers, James W. Myart Jr."
SEPTEMBER 8, 2004
BLACK FARMERS FILE NEW MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR BIAS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGIANST THE USDA
WASH. D,C, - “The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, Inc. (BFAA, INC.) and fifteen individual black farmers, acting as class representatives for nearly 70,000 affected black farmers, from around the country will file a new class action lawsuit against the USDA and its top officials,” said Tom Burrell, president of the 10,000 member black farmer rights organization. BFAA, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, has its national office in Memphis TN. and has state chapters in sixteen, primarily Southern states.
BFAA, Inc.’s lawyers are civil rights litigator James W. Myart, Jr, BFAA General Counsel and lead attorney for the new lawsuit, Kent Krause and Paula Walsh all from Texas. Myart is licensed to practice law in the United District Court for the District of Columbia, D.C., among other federal judicial districts around the country. Tom Burrell said, “We are presently putting in place a stellar and expanded class action litigation committee, a legal dream team if you will, made up of our lawyers from Texas and renown civil rights lawyers in D.C. and from throughout the United States.”
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I have mixed feelings about that one. Remember the Farm Aid concerts that raised money to keep family farms from being auctioned off?
Some lawyers sell their soul to Satan when they pass the bar exam. Myart, Jr. just might be one of them.