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Lyng v. Castillo 477 U.S. 635 (1986) reversed a lower court’s decision that the change in the statutory definition of a household violated the appellee’s due process rights. The program rules for food stamps were changed in 1981 and 1982 which changed the definitions of households. The Supreme Court ruled that the District court erred in using heightened scrutiny to analyze the validity of the household definition.Earlier the Supreme Court ruled in Department of Agriculture v.