United States Ninth Circuit

The Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 7 USC 499a-499t, does not prohibit trustees from attempting to turn receivables into cash by factoring, but the arrangement must be commercially reasonable and not breach or otherwise dissipate the trust.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/05/2001
• Decided 06/04/2001
• Published 06/04/2001

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ARCHER,TROTT and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Keaton, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas L. Thorpe, Santa Monica, California and Neil M. Sunkin, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellees.