No. 24-1182

Windy Cove, Inc., a California corporation, et al. v. Circle K Stores, Inc., a Texas corporation

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-05-19
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response WaivedRelisted (2)
Tags: commercial-trade-practices fungible-product gasoline-commodity good-faith-standard ucc-contract-law wholesale-pricing
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw
Latest Conference: 2025-06-12 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether all gasoline is a fungible commodity and whether wholesale fuel pricing methods that deviate from industry standards satisfy good faith requirements under UCC §2-305

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether all gasoline, including branded gasoline, is a fungible commodity. 2. Whether in an open price term contract governed by California Commercial Code §2305 (adopted from Uniform Commercial Code §2 -305), setting wholesale prices by using a method and manner that is not standard within the industry nor used by any other wholesale distributor pushes a case out of Uniform Commercial Code §2 -305’s good faith safe harbor provision. 3. Whether in an open price term contract governed by California Commercial Code §2305 (adopted from Uniform Commercial Code §2 -305), the proper “in the range” price comparison analysis in determining whether a seller’s price is commercially reasonable (and thus set in good faith) is (a) a comparison between those within the same class of trade as the seller/merchant or (b) a comparison between those whom the seller considers to be its “competitors” regardless of class of trade. ii LIST OF ALL

Docket Entries

2025-06-16
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/12/2025.
2025-05-20
Waiver of right of respondent Circle K Stores, Inc. to respond filed.
2025-05-19
Motion Granted.
2025-04-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2025.
2025-04-14
2024-04-14
Motion of petitioner for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal filed.

Attorneys

Circle K Stores, Inc.
Robert M. DatoBuchalter, APC, Respondent
Windy Cove, Inc., et al.
Kenneth Paul RobertsK.P. Roberts & Associates, APLC, Petitioner