November 09, 2024
Business

Maine’s high court opinion still pending in Allen’s appeal

The business week ended Friday without any opinion issued by the state’s highest court regarding the expedited appeal last week by Allen’s Blueberry Freezer.

The Ellsworth company is one of three processors named in the wild blueberry lawsuit that has put the industry on hold until it’s resolved.

The two other processors found guilty of price fixing last November, Jasper Wyman & Son of Milbridge and Cherryfield Foods Inc. of Cherryfield, reached a settlement last week with Maine’s 500 blueberry growers.

But Allen’s chose not to take part in the settlement endorsed by the Maine Department of Agriculture. Its attorneys kept their Feb. 13 date before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Portland to appeal for dissolution of the attachments placed on the company’s assets last November, soon after a civil jury awarded growers $56 million in damages

Exactly what happens next for Allen’s is unclear. The Ellsworth company told the courts that bankruptcy was a likely outcome if its request for the attachments to be dissolved was not granted.


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