United States Second Circuit

A reparations award under the Perishable Agriculture Commodities Act is affirmed, as price-adjustment agreements were voidable under the doctrine of mistake, and defendant failed to prove that appellee breached supply agreements by shipping sub-standard tomatoes. An attorneys' fee award under 7 U.S.C. section 499(g)(c) is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2003
• Published 05/13/2003

Judges

• Before:  MCLAUGHLIN and B.D. PARKER, Jr., Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles E. Knapp,Law Office of Charles E. Knapp, P.C., New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lewis P. Janowsky, Rynn & Janowsky (Bart M. Botta, on the brief), Newport Beach, CA, for Respondent-Appellee.