Legal Opinion
Grain Land Coop v. Kar Kim Farms, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 15, 1999No. 98-3217, 98-3304PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
The Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), 7 U.S.C. §§ 1-25 (1999), requires that transactions in commodity futures contracts take place only under the rules of a board of trade that has been designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Excluded from regulation under the CEA are contracts for “any sale of any cash commodity for deferred shipment or delivery,” 7 U.S.C. § la(ll), otherwise known as cash-forward contracts. In this case, we are called upon to consider the CEA’s application to a particular arrangement for the sale of grain by a farmer to a grain…
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