United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's purchase of cattle through marketing agreements with cattle producers instead of from the cash market does not violate the Packers and Stockyards Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2005
• Published 08/17/2005

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and COX, Circuit Judges, and MILLS , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Andrew C. Allen, Peter H. Burke, Whatley Drake, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Randy Beard, Beard & Beard, Guntersville, AL, David A. Domina, Attorney at Law, Omaha, NE, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Susan Elayne Stokes, Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc., St. Paul, MN, Roger A. McEowen, Attorney at Law, KSU, Manhattan, KS, for Fifty Leading Scholars, Amicus Curiae., Roy T. Englert, Jr., Alison C. Barnes, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP, Washington, DC, for American Meat Institute & Nat'l Meat Ass'n, Amicus Curiae., A. Bruce Jones, Holland & Hart LLP, Denver, CO, for Cattle Producing, Cattle Marketing, and Beef Packing, Amicus Curiae., Brad P. Rosenberg, Michael E. Lackey, Jr., Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Washington, DC, for American State Bank & Trust Co., Amicus Curiae., Edward M. Mansfield, Belin, Lamson, McCormick, Zumbach, Flynn, Des Moines, IA, for Nat'l Pork Producers Council, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cassidy Kesler Pinegar, Carter G. Phillips, Jay Thomas Jorgensen, Kristin Graham Koehler, Thomas C. Green, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP, Washington, DC, Richard H. Gill, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Montgomery, AL, Nathan A. Hodne, Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, AR, for Defendant-Appellee.