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Nature of Suit Code: 891
Nature of Suit: Agricultural Acts
Cause of Action: 07:499 Agricultural Commodities Act

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DIEMER, WHITMAN & CARDOSI, LLP

KATHRYN DIEMER #133977

75 East Santa Clara Street, Suite 290

San Jose, California 95113

KEATON & ASSOCIATES, P.C.

JASON R. KLINOWSKI, ESQ. (IL# 6283266)

1278 W. Northwest Hwy., Suite 903

Palatine, Illinois 60067

ATTORNEYS FOR GREENFIELD FRESH, INC.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

GREENFIELD FRESH, INC.,

 Plaintiff,

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CABELLO PRODUCE SSF, INC. d/b/a

ADAN & BETO, RIGOBERTO MARTIN,

ADAN MARTIN, ARIEL HERBEZ, CESAR

CABELLOS and JESUS CABELLOS, each

individually,

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CIVIL ACTION

Case No. C10-00567-MHP

 

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

Plaintiff’s Application for the issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order under Federal Rules

of Civil Procedure 65(b) (the “Application”) came before this Court and the undersigned on the date

set forth below. The Court considered the Application, the Affidavit of Andrew T. Dewsnup and all

related moving papers. The Plaintiff’s Affidavit demonstrates defendants, Cabello Produce SSF, Inc.

d/b/a Adan & Beto (the “Company”), and Rigoberto Martin, Adan Martin, Ariel Herbez, Cesar

Cabellos and Jesus Cabellos (the “Principals”)(the Company and the Principals are collectively

referred to herein as the “Defendants”), purchased perishable agricultural commodities (“Produce”)

in interstate commerce and, thereafter, failed to pay the Plaintiff in violation of the Perishable

Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, 7 U.S.C. §§ 499a-499t, as amended (2007 & Supp. 2009) (the

“PACA”).

These same pleadings and supporting documents establish that the Defendants have either

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dissipated the PACA trust or have presented a sufficient threat of dissipation of such trust to warrant

the relief granted in this Order. On the basis of the pleadings, Affidavit and other submissions the

Plaintiff filed in this matter, it appears to this Court that the Plaintiff will suffer immediate and

irreparable injury due to the Defendants’ dissipation of Plaintiff’s beneficial interest in the statutory

trust created pursuant to 7 U.S.C. § 499e(c) and that such dissipation will continue in the absence of

injunctive relief. The Court is of the opinion that a Temporary Restraining Order should be issued

without notice thereof due to the threat of further dissipation that such notice might allow.

Based on the foregoing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:

1. Defendants, Cabello Produce SSF, Inc. d/b/a Adan & Beto (the “Company”), and

Rigoberto Martin, Adan Martin, Ariel Herbez, Cesar Cabellos and Jesus Cabellos (the

“Principals”)(the Company and the Principals are collectively referred to herein as the

“Defendants”), and their respective agents, attorneys, officers, assigns, and any of their banking

institutions must not pay, withdraw, transfer, assign or sell any and all existing PACA trust assets or

otherwise dispose of corporate or personal assets to any creditors, persons or entities until further

Order for this Court and after such time as the Defendants pay into the Registry of this Court no less

than the sum of $17,827.31.

2. Pending further orders of this Court, or until, such time as Defendants deposit into the

Registry of this Court the sum of at least $17,827.31, no banking institution holding funds for any

Defendant shall pay, transfer or permit assignment or withdrawal of any existing PACA trust assets

held on behalf of Defendants. Further, pending further order of this Court, or until such time as the

Defendants deposit into the Registry of this Court the sum of at least $17,827.31, no banking

institution holding funds for any Defendant shall pay, transfer or permit assignment or withdrawal of

the corporate or personal assets of any Defendant without this Court’s express written approval.

3. If the Defendants fail to deposit into the Registry of this Court the sum of $17,827.31

in full within three (3) business days of the entry of this Order, the Defendants must account to the

Court and the Plaintiff’s counsel for all accounts receivable, accounts payable, equipment, inventory

and all other assets subject to the PACA trust and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

4. In furtherance of such an accounting, the Court hereby directs any banking institution

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holding funds for any of the Defendants to turn over to Plaintiff’s undersigned counsel any and all

statements, signature cards, and other documents relating to or regarding any of the Defendants’

accounts at such banking institution(s) within five (5) business days of receipt of this Order.

5. The Defendants, their agents, employees, successors, banking institutions, attorneys

and all persons in active concert and participation with Defendants shall immediately turn over to the

Registry of this Court all funds or other assets impressed with the PACA trust.

6. This Order will be binding upon the parties to this action, their officers, agents,

servants, employees, banks, or attorneys and all other persons or entities who receive actual notice of

this Order by personal service or otherwise. In this regard, within three (3) business days of the entry

of this Order, the Defendants shall serve a copy of this Order on all financial institutions with which

any of the Defendants does any business, may do any business with or who may be holding any PACA

trust assets for or on behalf of any of the Defendants. 

7. Because Defendants already possess $17,827.31 of PACA trust assets which are the

Plaintiff’s property, the bond in this matter is hereby set at $0.00.

8. A Preliminary Injunction Hearing is hereby set for February ____, 2010 at ____ __.M.

in Courtroom _____ of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in San

Francisco, California.

9. Plaintiff, through its Counsel, shall serve a true and correct copy of this Order on all

Defendants including their respective counsel, if known.

SO ORDERED this ______ day of February, 2010 in San Francisco, California.

ENTER: 

 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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15 12th

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NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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