June 22, 2023
Del Monte urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to reverse a Florida lower court's judgment that didn't require the return of nearly $40 million from sales of a pineapple variety, despite injunctions the fruit company said required a grower to stop selling the fruit after the parties' contractual relationship ended.
October 20, 2021
Del Monte told the Eleventh Circuit that a Florida federal judge wrongly let a Costa Rican fruit grower slide by not imposing sanctions after it violated a court order to stop growing and selling a certain pineapple variety.
August 10, 2021
A Florida federal judge rejected Del Monte's disgorgement sanction request for $16.4 million Tuesday, finding that Del Monte couldn't show how a Costa Rican fruit grower harmed it by violating an order to stop growing and selling pineapples.
August 06, 2020
A Miami-based magistrate judge said Thursday that Del Monte is asking a Florida federal court to exceed its authority by seeking an order allowing it to seize rent payments a fruit grower received in Costa Rica to satisfy an unpaid $29 million arbitration award.
July 17, 2020
A Florida magistrate judge on Thursday rejected Del Monte's request to fine a Costa Rican fruit grower $16 million for violating an order to stop growing and selling a particular pineapple variety, but did recommend awarding Del Monte its fees and costs.
June 30, 2020
Del Monte called a Costa Rican fruit grower a "thief" Tuesday and asked a Florida magistrate judge to recommend a nearly $16.4 million fine for violating an order to stop growing and selling a particular pineapple variety.
January 24, 2020
A Florida judge on Friday denied a Costa Rican pineapple grower's request for proof of damages from Del Monte International GmbH, which is trying to hold the grower in contempt for ignoring a $32 million arbitral award against it.
October 11, 2019
A Monaco-based Del Monte unit urged a Florida federal court to hold a Costa Rican pineapple plantation in contempt after it allegedly flouted an arbitral award by refusing to stop selling a special variety of super-sweet pineapple, arguing that the grower's "day of reckoning is at hand."
March 19, 2019
A Florida federal judge on Monday ordered one of Costa Rica's largest pineapple growers to show why the court shouldn't seize and resell the grower's contract rights with a fruit importer to satisfy a $32 million arbitration award for Del Monte.
February 20, 2019
A pineapple grower has urged a Florida federal court not to assign the proceeds of a Costa Rican lease and operating contract to a Monaco-based Del Monte unit looking to enforce a $29.3 million arbitral award, arguing that doing so would be an "unprecedented intrusion into Costa Rica's sovereignty."