PRUNE BARGAINING ASS'N v. BUTZ

No. C-74-1976 WHO.

444 F.Supp. 785 (1975)

PRUNE BARGAINING ASSOCIATION, a non-profit Cooperative Association, J. Massoni and Edward Massoni, as copartners doing business as J. & E. Massoni, Ben W. McCutchan and W. O. McCutchan, Jr., as co-partners doing business as McCutchan Ranches, J. A. Breeding, John A. Breeding, Jr., and Lester B. Breeding, as co-partners doing business as J. A. Breeding & Sons, Louis Matteucci and James Matteucci, as copartners doing business as Matteucci Bros., Donald Fredson and Leonard Fredson, as co-partners, Frank Bozzo, Sam Bozzo and Emil Rossi, co-partners doing business as Frank Bozzo & Son, James Brocker and John Brocker, copartners doing business as Brocker Bros., Ronald G. Waltenspeil and Rebecca Waltenspeil, co-partners doing business as Timber Crest Farms, W. L. Stile and W. L. Stile, Jr., co-partners doing business as W. L. Stile & Son, John J. Mezzanotte, Walter W. Kolthoff, George T. Kersh, Manuel George, Hereward G. Petersen, C. Hollis Black, Erwin C. Derrick, Henry S. Bisordi, George Bisordi, David C. Williams, Ray Pigoni, Carmen E. Filice, Peter L. Nissen, Erwin C. Derrick, Walter H. Nock, Ray M. Stanton, Robert A. Huffman, Silas Griffin, W. F. Wentz, Charles Anthony, Donald L. Eberly, Jack F. Douglas, A. J. Melani, Harold M. Ross, Leon Eller, Mitchell Soso, John A. Breeding, Jr., Sheridan Ballard, A. D. Saso, Manuel Souza, A. S. Hambly, Louie A. Lasich, Edward Massoni, Mildred Sanders, John Castello, Harold J. Cerrato, Francis N. Schwab, Raymond Brocker, Joseph A. Zanger, Charles D. Filice, Vincent Castello, Louis A. Scaglione Jr., Jack Baird, Ralph M. Santos, Ralph Santos Jr., Mary V. Reilly, Ewald Strom, Harold A. Hoskins, Mrs. Lillian B. Pilate, Gordon Holvick, Piara Singh Gosal, Gurman Singh Parma, Nirmal Singh, Mrs. Ida Rose, James H. Peterson, Bruno O. Buti, Bernard A. Lile, Barry Gold, Howard D. Harper, Angela A. Harper, Martin Rajkovich, Joseph Filice, Louis Lepara, Mike Cari, James S. Johnston and Claudine Johnston, copartners dba Ramona Ranch, John Saunders & Sons, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Earl BUTZ, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, Sunsweet Growers, Inc., a nonprofit Cooperative Association, Del Monte Corporation, Harter Packing Company, Paul A. Mariani Company, Mayfair Packing Company, Valley View Packing Co., Inc., Stapleton-Spence Packing Co., Battaglia Packing Co., First Doe through Fifteenth Doe, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

May 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Browning, Jr., U.S. Atty., William T. McGivern, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for Earl Butz.

A. James Roberts, III, Tuttle & Taylor, Los Angeles, Cal., for Sunsweet Growers.

Robert M. Westberg, Reginald D. Steer, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for Del Monte.

Mezzetti & Testa, Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, San Jose, Cal., for Harter Packing, Paul A. Mariani Co., Mayfair Packing, Valley View Packing, Stapleton-Spence Packing.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ORRICK, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, Prune Bargaining Association — an organization representing 217 of the approximately 2,500 producers of California prunes — and numerous individual prune growers, seek to permanently enjoin defendants Earl Butz, the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, and several prune handlers from enforcing certain provisions of regulations promulgated...

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