Sarah Vogel Fought the Government on Behalf of Family Farms
From the Civil Eats:
Attorney Sarah Vogel made history when she raised and won the first class-action lawsuit against the federal government to protect North Dakota farmers from illegal foreclosures during the farm crisis of the 1980s. Coleman v. Block, also known as the case of the North Dakota Nine, stretched into a national class action lawsuit and led to critical legislation, the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987, which radically changed the way farm credit disputes were handled.
In the early 80s, farmers faced an economic crisis spurred by high interest rates and operating costs, low crop and land prices, and severe weather…