States Win Expanded Order Blocking USDA Demand for SNAP Data

States challenging the US Department of Agriculture’s effort to obtain the personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients won an expanded preliminary injunction Thursday blocking the department from cutting off program funding over their refusal to hand over the data.

The group of 21 states and the District of Columbia showed they were likely to prevail on the merits of their claim that a disallowance of funding would be contrary to the SNAP Act, and would suffer irreparable harm as a result of a funding cutoff, Judge Maxine M. Chesney of the US District Court for the Northern District ...