JOSÉ SANTIAGO, INC. v. SMITHFIELD PACKAGED MEATS

No. 22-1491.

66 F.4th 329 (2023)

JOSÉ SANTIAGO, INC., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SMITHFIELD PACKAGED MEATS CORP., Defendant, Appellee, Smithfield Foods, Inc., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

April 25, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfredo Fernández-Martínez , with whom Carlos R. Baralt-Suárez and Delgado Fernández LLC were on brief, for appellant.

Ryan David Frei , with whom Garrett Hansbrough Hooe , McGuireWoods LLP, Henry O. Freese-Souffront , Daniel Pérez-Refojos , and McConnell Valdés LLC were on brief, for appellee.

Before Kayatta, Howard, and Thompson, Circuit Judges.


Puerto Rico's Law 75 governs the relationships between distributors in Puerto Rico and their suppliers. José Santiago, Inc. ("JSI"), is a distributor of food-service products in Puerto Rico. It contends that one of its suppliers violated Law 75 by refusing to continue filling JSI's orders unless JSI agreed to a written...

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