NORTHWESTERN FRUIT CO. v. A. LEVY & J. ZENTNER CO.

No. CV F-84-263-EDP.

665 F.Supp. 869 (1986)

NORTHWESTERN FRUIT CO., Malat Produce Co., Inc., and Twin City Produce Supplies, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. A. LEVY & J. ZENTNER CO., Abatti Produce, Inc., A & M Produce Co., A.T.B. Packing Co., Badlands Provisions, Inc., Bud Antle, Inc., Couture Farms, Hi-Value Processors, Inc., Lindemann Farms, Inc., Mario Saikhon, Inc., Naam Packing Co., Pacific Farm Co., Pappas and Co., Perez Packing, Inc., Sahara Packing Co., Signal Produce, Inc., Silver Creek Packing Co., Stamoules Produce Co., Tri-Produce Co., United Packing Co., V.H. Azhderian & Co., Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

March 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Anderson, Jon Enscoe, Ann Julius, Landels, Ripley & Diamond, San Francisco, Cal., Arthur M. Kaplan, Allen D. Black, Edward B. Rock, Fine, Kaplan & Black, Philadelphia, Pa., Vance K. Opperman, Charles N. Nauen, Opperman & Paquin, Andrew C. McIntosh, K. Craig Wildfang, Wildfang, Rude, McIntosh, Murray & Chartered, Minneapolis, Minn., Mary Louise Frampton, Frampton, Karshmer & Kessellman, Fresno, Cal., for Northwestern Fruit Co., Malat Produce Co., Inc., Twin City Produce Supplies, Inc.

Richard J. Archer, Kristina M. Hanson, Archer & Hanson, San Francisco, Cal., for A. Levy & J. Zentner Co.

Patrick J. Sullivan, Sullivan, Duvall & Nova, San Diego, Cal., for Abatti Produce.

John Germino, Stephen G. Opperwall, Germino, Layne, Brodie, Runte, Maquire & Mac Kay, Palo Alto, Cal., for V.H. Azhderian & Co., Inc.

John J. Maloff, Horton, Knox, Carter & Foote, El Centro, Cal., for Badlands Provisions, Inc., Signal Produce, Inc.

Michael St. Peter, Lukens, St. Peter & Cooper, San Francisco, Cal., for Bud Antle, Inc.

Lyman Griswold, Griswold, Bissig, La-Salle, Cobb & Dowd, Hanford, Cal., Randy Lebedoff, John French, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Couture Farms.

Merrick J. Bobb, Raymond C. Fisher, Tuttle & Taylor, Los Angeles, Cal., for Hi-Value Processors, Inc.

Robert E. Gooding, Jr., H. Joseph Escher, III, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, San Francisco, Cal., for A.T.B. Packing Co.

Richard A. Clark, Susan Harrison, Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian, Los Angeles, Cal., for Lindemann Farms, Inc.

Ravinder Samra, Lowell Sutherland, Sutherland & Gerber, El Centro, Cal., for Mario Saikhon, Inc., A & M Produce Co.

Ann L. Kelly, Merced, Cal., Eugene Garfinkle, Dreher, Garfinkle & Watson, San Francisco, Cal., for Naam Packing Co.

William S. Boyd, John E. Schulz, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., John D. Chinello, Jr., Chinello, Chinello, Shelton and Auchard, Fresno, Cal., for Pacific Farm Co.

Paul T. Chambers, Crossland, Crossland, Chambers and Mac Arthur, Fresno, Cal., for Pappas & Co.

Robert D. Raven, Gordon P. Erspamer, Edward Quevedo, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, Cal., for Perez Packing Co., Couture Farms.

Richard F. Outcault, Jr., Richard L. Fruin, Jr., Lawler, Felix & Hall, Los Angeles, Cal., Patricia A. Stanley, Newport Beach, Cal., for Sahara Packing Co.

Eugene Crew, Joel Linzner, Khourie & Crew, San Francisco, Cal., for Silver Creek Packing Co.

Robert L. Jones Jr., Richardson & Jones, Fresno, Cal., for Stamoules Produce Co.

Stephen V. Bomse, Matthew L. Larrabee, Harold Kahn, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, Cal., Nickolas J. Dibiaso, Thomas, Snell, Jamison, Russell, Williamson & Asperger, Fresno, Cal., for Tri-Produce Co.

Richard E. Salisch, Salisch & Salisch, Fresno, Cal., Ted R. Frame, Frame and Allen, Coalinga, Cal., for United Packing Co.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW IN RE CERTAIN DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

PRICE, District Judge.

FINDINGS OF FACT

1. Defendants impose a cooling and palletizing charge when they sell cantaloupes to purchasers, and in the majority of sales to purchasers the cooling and palletizing charge is separately "broken out", in the invoice to the Purchaser, as well as arithmetically included in the "bottom line" paid by the canteloupe purchaser...

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