Legal Opinion
Medina & Medina, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 21, 2016No. 14-2055PPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case involves a dispute over an unwritten and allegedly exclusive distributorship agreement between Medina & Medina, Inc. (“Medina”) and Hormel Foods Corp. (“Hormel”) under Puerto Rico’s Dealer’s Contracts Act (“Law 75”), see P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 10, §§ 278-278e. Medina, a Puerto Rico-based distributor of refrigerated food products, brought a lawsuit against its principal, Hormel, seeking a declaration that Medina is the exclusive distributor of Hormel’s retail refrigerated products in Puerto Rico. Medina also claimed that Hormel violated the exclusive distribution…
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