November 03, 2017
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. agreed Thursday to drop its suit accusing a juice company of interfering with a contract with a pineapple grower, in exchange for an injunction barring the juice company from buying pineapples from the grower.
September 27, 2017
A Miami federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.'s suit accusing a juice company of interfering with a contract with a pineapple grower that now owes Del Monte $32 million.
May 16, 2017
A Miami federal judge on Monday denied Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.'s request to satisfy a $32 million arbitral award against a pineapple grower by transferring to Del Monte debt owed to the grower by a juice company, upholding a magistrate judge's recommendation.
April 07, 2017
A juice company caught in the crosshairs between Del Monte and a pineapple grower that Del Monte won a $32 million arbitration award against has urged a Florida federal court to deny the produce giant’s efforts to block the juice company from buying from the grower.
March 22, 2017
Food giant Del Monte asked a Florida federal court Tuesday to block a juice company buying pineapples from a former grower, one from which it won a $32 million arbitration award and injunction for breach of a contract prohibiting it from selling the particular strain.
March 08, 2017
Del Monte Produce Inc. hasn’t shown it will suffer irreparable harm if a juice company isn’t blocked from buying pineapples from a grower Del Monte is seeking to confirm a $32 million arbitral award against, a Florida magistrate judge said Tuesday, recommending that the injunction bid be denied.
February 22, 2017
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.'s request to seal certain documents in its effort to stop a juice company from buying pineapples from a grower that owes the produce giant an unconfirmed $32 million arbitral award comes "nowhere close" to passing muster, a Florida magistrate judge said Tuesday.
January 30, 2017
A Florida federal magistrate judge recommended on Monday that Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.'s request to garnish a juice company's debt to a pineapple grower to satisfy a $32 million arbitral award against the grower be denied, saying the company should have sued under a different law.
January 19, 2017
A Florida federal magistrate judge on Wednesday asked a unit of Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. and a juice company whose debt to a pineapple grower Del Monte is trying to intercept to search far and wide for any cases that address whether unconfirmed arbitral awards can serve as the basis for debt garnishment.
January 12, 2017
A Florida federal judge ordered Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. and a Costa Rican juice company to provide more details about pineapple purchases that Del Monte asserts are illegal, saying Monday that he wouldn't contemplate halting the sales until he has precise dates and quantities relevant to the decision.