7 USC 197b – Choice of law and venue
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(a) Location of forum
The forum for resolving any dispute among the parties to a poultry growing arrangement or swine production or marketing contract that arises out of the arrangement or contract shall be located in the Federal judicial district in which the principle part of the performance takes place under the arrangement or contract.
(b) Choice of law
Terms Used In 7 USC 197b
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- poultry: means chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other domestic fowl. See 7 USC 182
- poultry growing arrangement: means any growout contract, marketing agreement, or other arrangement under which a poultry grower raises and cares for live poultry for delivery, in accord with another's instructions, for slaughter. See 7 USC 182
- State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
A poultry growing arrangement or swine production or marketing contract may specify which State‘s law is to apply to issues governed by State law in any dispute arising out of the arrangement or contract, except to the extent that doing so is prohibited by the law of the State in which the principal part of the performance takes place under the arrangement or contract.