S & H PACKING & SALES v. TANIMURA DISTRIBUTING

No. 14-56059, No. 14-56078.

883 F.3d 797 (2018)

S & H PACKING & SALES CO., INC., DBA Season Produce Co., a California corporation, Plaintiff, and G. W. Palmer & Co., Inc.; Andrew & Williamson Sales Co., Inc., DBA Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce; East Coast Brokers and Packers, Inc.; Gargiulo, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TANIMURA DISTRIBUTING, INC., a California corporation, Defendant, and AgriCap Financial Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Defendant-Appellee. S & H Packing & Sales Co., Inc., DBA Season Produce Co., a California corporation, Plaintiff, and Apache Produce Co., Inc., DBA Plain Jane, an Arizona corporation; O.P. Murphy Produce Co., Inc., DBA Murphy & Sons, a Texas corporation; Oceanside Produce, Inc., a California corporation; Wilson Produce, LLC, an Arizona Limited liability company; Frank Donio, Inc.; Abbate Family Farms Limited Partnership; J.P.M. Sales Co., Inc., an Arizona corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Thomson International, Inc., assignee, Tanimura Distributing, Inc., Creditor-Appellant, v. Tanimura Distributing, Inc., Defendant, and AgriCap Financial Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 22, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis W. Diess III (argued) and Mary Jean Fassett , McCarron & Diess, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiffs-Appellants G.W. Palmer & Co., Inc.; Gargiulo, Inc.; Andrew & Williamson Sales Co., Inc.; and East Coast Brokers & Packers, Inc.

Robert Porter Lewis, Jr. , Law Office of Robert P. Lewis Jr., South Pasadena, California; Bradley L. Cornell , Cornell Law Firm, Pasadena, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Apache Produce Co., Inc; O.P. Murphy Produce Co., Inc.; Oceanside Produce, Inc.; Wilson Produce, LLC; Frank Donio, Inc.; Abbate Family Farms Limited Partnership; JPM Sales Co., Inc.; and Thomson International, Inc.

Cristoph Carl Heisenberg (argued), Hinckley & Heisenberg LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee AgriCap Financial Corporation.

Dissent by Judge Ikuta.


OPINION

Appellant produce growers ("Growers")1 sold their perishable agricultural products on credit to a distributor, Tanimura Distributing, Inc. ("Tanimura"). Under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act ("PACA"), 7 U.S.C. §§ 499a-499s, this arrangement made Tanimura a...

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