Thomas Mitchell, with Rachel Slocum of UW-La Crosse and seven others, co-authored a letter to the editor appearing in The New York Times May 3. Their letter refutes an April 26 article alleging widespread fraud in federal class action payouts to black farmers. The article "underplays the history of racial dispossession, uses cherry-picked examples, and creates needless antipathy to the lawsuit and the settlement with black farmers," they write.

Submitted by Law School News on May 6, 2013

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