Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit March 24, 2003, 01-2859, 01-2863 (Top of Iowa Cooperative, an Iowa Cooperative, Cross-Appellant/appellee v. Virgil E. Schewe, Appellant/cross-Appellee)

GOLDBERG, Judge.

Appellant Virgil E. Schewe (“Schewe”) appeals the district court’s

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entry of judgment as a matter of law against his claims that certain hedge-to-arrive (“HTA”) contracts were cash forward contracts excluded from the regulations of the Commodity Exchange Act and not illegal futures contracts.