September 25, 2018
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday ordered a Costa Rican pineapple farm to pay a Monaco-based Del Monte unit's attorneys' fees after unsuccessfully challenging a more than $29.3 million arbitration award, concluding the farm's argument that the tribunal had disregarded the law fell short of the necessary standard.
September 17, 2018
A Costa Rican pineapple farm has rebuked a Florida magistrate judge for recommending it pay a Del Monte unit's attorneys' fees, and instead argued that exceptional grounds warranted challenging the $29.3 million arbitration award issued to the food production and distribution company.
September 05, 2018
A Costa Rican pineapple farm should have to pay a Monaco-based Del Monte unit's attorneys' fees for mounting a baseless and inadequate challenge against a more than $29.3 million arbitration award issued to the food production and distribution company, a Florida magistrate judge concluded.
May 10, 2018
Swiss corporation Del Monte International GmbH has asked a Florida federal court to enforce its order confirming a $32 million arbitral award against a Costa Rican pineapple grower, saying Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical Inprotsa SA's latest bid to escape payment is "a futile effort to avoid its day of reckoning."
April 25, 2018
A Costa Rican pineapple grower urged a Florida federal court Tuesday to abstain from enforcing a $32 million arbitral award to Swiss corporation Del Monte International GmbH, saying that Costa Rican courts have refused to enforce the award and that the grower has no assets in the United States.
March 27, 2018
A large-scale pineapple buyer urged a Florida federal court to jail the executives of its former Costa Rican supplier, accusing the supplier of flaunting a court order to return or destroy its pineapple seeds and stop sales.
August 02, 2017
A Costa Rican pineapple plantation that recently lost its bid to nix confirmation of a $32 million arbitration award favoring its former buyer, Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., has urged a Florida federal court not to grant Del Monte's bid for attorneys' fees, calling the request for sanctions inappropriate.
May 03, 2017
A Florida federal judge Tuesday confirmed Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.'s $32 million arbitration award won against one of its fruit suppliers, a Costa Rican pineapple plantation, rejecting the supplier's argument that the tribunal's decision was based on a fraudulent sales agreement.
February 10, 2017
A Florida federal judge cited an ongoing appeal Thursday when refusing to hold that Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. is still clear to try and confirm a $32 million arbitration award won against one of its fruit suppliers, a Costa Rican pineapple plantation whose suit was dismissed in December.
December 07, 2016
A Costa Rican pineapple plantation that supplied fruit to Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. and was ordered by arbitrators to pay Del Monte $32 million in a contract dispute had its request to annul the award shot down Wednesday, when a Florida federal judge said it didn't raise any good objections to the award.