Judge: Discovery Of Del Monte’s Sales, Damages Not Relevant To Proceeding

Mealey's (March 23, 2020, 9:35 AM EDT) -- MIAMI — A pineapple company does need to provide evidence of its sales or actual damages in a dispute over a pineapple seed agreement as it is not arguing that it lost sales as a result of the pineapple grower’s alleged breach of the agreement, a federal magistrate judge in Florida wrote in an order issued March 10, denying a motion to compel discovery and a motion to compel production of actual damages (Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical INPROTSA, S.A. v. Del Monte International GmbH, No. 16-24275, S.D. Fla.)....