MATTER OF DELTA PRODUCE, L.P.

No. 14-51079 Consolidated with 14-51080.

845 F.3d 609 (2016)

In the MATTER OF: DELTA PRODUCE, L.P.; Staci Properties, Limited, Debtors. Kingdom Fresh Produce, Incorporated; I. Kunik Company, Incorporated; Five Brothers Jalisco Produce Company, Incorporated, doing business as Bonanza 2001; Rio Bravo Produce, Limited Company, L.L.C.; G.R. Produce, Incorporated, Appellees Cross-Appellants v. Stokes Law Office, L.L.P., Appellant Cross-Appellee. In the Matter of: Delta Produce, L.P.; Superior Tomato-Avocado, Limited; Atled, Limited; Staci Properties, Limited, Debtors. Kingdom Fresh Produce, Incorporated; I. Kunik Company, Incorporated; Five Brothers Jalisco Produce Company, Incorporated, doing business as 300Bonanza 2001; Rio Bravo Produce, Limited Company, L.L.C.; G.R. Produce, Incorporated, Appellees v. Stokes Law Office, L.L.P., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed December 21, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael John Keaton , Attorney, Keaton Law Firm, P.C., Deerfield, IL, for Appellees Cross-Appellants.

Mark Charles Hewitt Mandell , Annandale, NJ, Maurleen Worley Cobb , Craig Alan Stokes , Stokes Law Office, L.L.P., San Antonio, TX, for Appellant Cross-Appellee.

Bartholomew M. Botta , Rynn & Janowsky, L.L.P., Newport Beach, CA, for Rynn & Janowsky, L.L.P., Amicus Curiae.

Before REAVLEY, PRADO, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.


The prior opinion is withdrawn and the following is substituted to clarify in response to the final argument made in Appellees Cross-Appellants' petition for panel rehearing. The motion is denied otherwise.

This attorney's fee dispute has its roots in the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), a Depression...

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