Bybee Farms, LLC v. Snake River Sugar Co.

TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS RE PLAINTIFFS’ FIRST, SECOND, AND EIGHTH CLAIMS

FRED VAN SICKLE, Senior District Judge.

THIS MATTER comes before the Court based upon the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. They are represented by J. Walter Sinclair; the plaintiffs by Thomas Banducci. The following are the Court’s tentative conclusions regarding the plaintiffs’ first, second, and eighth claims.

BACKGROUND

The Snake River Sugar Company (“SRSC”) is an agricultural cooperative. Its members are sugarbeet growers in the States of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Each year, the SRSC purchases sugar-beets from…