( April 14, 2025, 2:54 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The creation of a new water rate pricing structure in Jackson, Miss., that provides discounts to recipients of benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) did not constitute a federal assistance program and, therefore, the city’s water system operator is not entitled to access of SNAP recipients’ personal data as part of the efforts to implement the new rates, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled....