Two sellers of perishable agricultural commodities, Nickey Gregory Company, LLC, and Poppell’s Produce Inc., commenced this action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930 ("PACA"), 7 U.S.C. §§ 499a-499t, to recover $106,696 owed them for the sale of produce to Robison Farms, LLC....   MORE>>

Miles Farm Supply challenges the district court’s summary disposition of its Kentucky-law claims that Helena Chemical Company aided and abetted a breach of fiduciary duty by three Miles employees and that, by aiding those employees, Helena tortiously interfered with Miles’ prospective contractua...   MORE>>

David Monson and Wayne Hauge appeal from an order of the District Court dismissing their action for a declaration that the Controlled Substances Act (CSA or Act), 21 U.S.C. §§ 801–971, does not apply to their planned cultivation of Cannabis sativa L. (cannabis) pursuant to licenses they obtained...   MORE>>

Once more a federal court is called to say that the purpose of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 is to protect competition and, therefore, only those practices that will likely affect competition adversely violate the Act. That is this holding.

This appeal is concerned only with § 202 of th...   MORE>>

This is an appeal from a preliminary injunction issued by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico against the Milk Industry Regulation Administration for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("ORIL" by its Spanish acronym), a sub-entity of the Department of Agriculture charged wi...   MORE>>

This appeal presents the question of whether a Massachusetts statute entitling a party to attorneys' fees following a successful arbitration entitles the same party to attorneys' fees incurred in successfully defending against an attempt to overturn the arbitral award in court. The district court de...   MORE>>

The Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (the “TSRA”), 22 U.S.C. §§ 7201-7211, limits restrictions imposed unilaterally by the President on exports of food, medicine, and other agricultural products to Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Cuba. Aimed at lifting embargoes t...   MORE>>

Roundup Ready alfalfa is an alfalfa crop that was genetically engineered by Monsanto to be tolerant of glyphosate, which is the active ingredient in its herbicide Roundup. The particular lines of genetically engineered alfalfa that are at issue here were designated as events J101 and J163 (“Roundu...   MORE>>