American Banana Co., Inc. v. Republic National Bank Of New York

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• holding that \§ 46.46(e)(2) of the PACA regulations [the 30-day maximum] to be applicable to post-default as well as pre-transaction agreements\
• holding that buyers are permitted to comingle PACA trust assets with their other assets
• holding that an oral agreement may forfeit the protection of the PACA trust
• “The imposition of liability [on the bank] ... would ... run the serious risk of complicating' — -if not eliminating altogether-overdraft procedures that directly benefit PACA beneficiaries”
• The court concluded that there was no “meaningful difference between pre-transaction and post-default agreements in light of [the] legislative history.”
• defendant bank was neither an investor in nor a secured lender to debtor corporation

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