Patterson Frozen Foods, Inc. v. Crown Foods International, Inc., a Corporation F/k/a Crown Food-Service Group, Inc., and Philip H. Eckert

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• concluding that \PACA rights are lost whenever the parties enter into a written agreement that satisfies the generally applicable Statute of Frauds\
• recognizing the “general principle” that “PACA is to be construed liberally in favor of sellers.”
• stating that PACA gives sellers “a superior secured interest”
• “Filing a PACA trust claim may be beneficial to [a seller] in the short run, but if it prevails it might put one of its large buyers out of business (because the USDA will revoke the dealer’s license).”
• \PACA rights are lost whenever the parties enter into a written agreement that satisfies the generally applicable Statute of Frauds.\
• “[A]n oral agreement for an extension or a course of dealing allowing more than 30 days for payment will not abrogate a PACA trust.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).