GREATER ROCKFORD ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY CORP. v. SHELL OIL CO.

No. 92-2212.

998 F.2d 391 (1993)

GREATER ROCKFORD ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY CORP., Shepherd Oil, Inc., Vidalia Ethanol, Ltd., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Marathon Petroleum Company, Amoco Oil Company, Inc., Chevron, U.S.A., Inc., Atlantic Richfield Co., B.P. America, Exxon Company, U.S.A. and Mobil Oil Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1993.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied September 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregg R. Potvin, Taylor, Thiemann & Aitken, Washington, DC, Bob F. Wright, Domengeaux & Wright, Lafayette, LA, Lloyd W. Gathings, Gathings & Davis, Birmingham, AL, Wayne M. Liao, Spiegel, Liao & Kagay, San Francisco, CA, Phil C. Neal (argued), George M. Hoffman, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, IL, and Leslie J. Schiff, Sandoz, Sandoz & Schiff, Opelousas, LA, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Neil F. Hartigan, Atty. Gen., Bart T. Murphy, John W. McCaffrey, Asst. Attys. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen.; and Robert E. Davy, Jr., Lison & Pullman, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff, People of State of Ill.

Peter M. Sfikas, Peterson & Ross, Chicago, IL, Ann Spiegel, A.M. Minotti, Shell Oil Co. Legal Dept., Houston, TX; Ronald W. Teeple, John L. Leonard, Samuel Gideon Kramer, John William Loseman, Defrees & Fiske; Thomas A. Gottschalk, J. Andrew Langan, David A. Rammelt, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL; John H. Stroh, Marathon Oil Co.; Dan D. Sandman, Findlay, OH; Amy J. Berenson, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC; Michael E. Rigney, Chicago, IL; Robert E. Gillespie, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Springfield, IL; Martin J. Keating; James J. Neath, Amoco Corp., Chicago, IL; John H. Long, Long, Morris, Myers & Rabin, Springfield, IL; John E. Bailey, Keith E. Parks, Mark A. Cervenka, David L. Ream, John T. Lewis, Chevron Corp., Houston, TX; Donald A. Bright, Atlantic Richfield Co., Los Angeles, CA; Philip H. Curtis (argued), Robert C. Mason, Arnold & Porter, New York City; Joseph Dattilo, Cleveland, OH; Robert G. Abrams (argued), Joanne E. Caruso, Howrey & Simon, Washington, DC; Jeffrey M. Cross, Patrick J. Ahern, Mary Clare Bonaccorsi, Ross & Hardies, Chicago, IL; Edward H. Beck, Mobil Oil Corp., Fairfax, VA; and R. Gerald Barris, Sorling, Northrup, Hanna, Cullen & Cochran, Ltd., Springfield, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and LAY, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied September 2, 1993.*

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Ethanol producers and gasohol blenders sued a number of oil companies for treble damages and injunctive relief pursuant to §§ 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 15, 26 (1988), alleging that the companies violated, inter alia, the Gasohol Competition Act of 1980, 15 U.S.C. § 26a (1988). The district...

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