Autauga Quality Cotton Association v. Tim L. Crosby

NEWSOM, Circuit Judge:

This is a case about cotton. B. B. King once called cotton "a force of nature"-"[t]here's a poetry to it," he wrote, "hoeing and growing cotton." Here, the poetry of the hoeing and growing has given way to a *1278 nasty little feud over the selling. Specifically, Autauga Quality Cotton Association, a cooperative that pools and markets farmers' cotton, claims that the individual owners of one of its former member entities-together, the Crosbys-breached a marketing agreement, and "betray[ed]" the organization, when they failed to deliver their promised cotton for the 2010 crop…