IN RE CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LITIGATION


643 F.2d 195 (1981)

In re CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. ADAMS EXTRACT CO., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Great Northern Packaging Corp., et al., CFS Continental, Inc., et al., Rossville Packing Co., et al., Andre-Boudin Bakeries, Inc., et al., Townhouse Furniture, et al., Denver Meat Co., et al., Carron Manufacturing Co., Ilikon Corp., Wittek Golf Supply Co., Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Appellees, v. PLEASURE HOURS, INC., et al., St. Joe Paper Co., The Continental Group, Olinkraft, Inc., Container Corporation of America, The Chesapeake Corporation of Virginia, Owens-Illinois, Inc., MacMillan Bloedel, Inc., Inland Container Corp., Menasha Corp., U. S. Corrugated Fibre-Box Co., Stone Container Corp., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees. In re CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. ADAMS EXTRACT CO., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, CFS Continental, Inc., et al., Townhouse Furniture, et al., Rossville Packing Co., et al., Denver Meat Co., et al., Carron Manufacturing Co., Andre-Boudin Bakeries, Inc., Ilikon Corp., Great Northern Packaging Corp., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Appellees, Pleasure Hours, Inc., et al., London Dry Ltd., et al., Plaintiffs-Objectors-Appellants-Appellees, v. The CHESAPEAKE CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, et al., Stone Container Corp., Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aram A. Hartunian, Marshall Patner, Pressman & Hartunian, Chtd., Chicago, Ill., Michael Perrin, Wayne Fisher, Fisher, Rock & Gallagher, Houston, Tex., for Great Northern Packaging Corp.

Granvil I. Specks, Perry Goldberg, Gary L. Specks, Specks & Goldberg, Chicago, Ill., for CFS Continental, Inc. et al.

Michael J. Freed, Joseph A. Ginsburg, Levin, Ginsburg & Novoselsky, Lawrence H. Eiger, Muchy, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament & Eiger, Chicago, Ill., for Rossville Packaging Co., et al.

R. Clifford Potter, Dennis P. W. Johnson, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, Ill., for Boise Cascade Corp.

James B. Sloan, Michael P. Connelly, Sloan & Connelly, Chicago, Ill., for Ilikon Corp.

Phillip C. Goldstick, Goldstick & Smith, Chicago, Ill., for Wittek Golf Supply Co.

Fletcher H. Etheridge, Houston, Tex., for Alton Box Board Co., et al.

Richard N. Carrell, Houston, Tex., for St. Joe Paper Co.

Bader & Bader, White Plains, N. Y., for London Dry Ltd. and Pleasure Hours, Inc., et al.

Guido Saveri, Saveri & Saveri, San Francisco, Cal., for Andre-Boudin Bakeries, Inc. et al.

Ellis Sostrin, Sostrin & Walner, Chicago, Ill., for Townhouse Furniture et al.

Robert H. Weir, San Jose, Cal., for Denver Meat Co., et al.

Lawrence Walner, Chicago, Ill., Leonard Barrack, Barrack, Rodos & McMahon, Philadelphia, Pa., for Carron Mfg. Co.

W. Donald McSweeney, Thomas P. Luning, Janet M. Koran, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, Ill., for Continental Group, Inc.

C. Kenneth Shank, Jr., New York City, for Olinkraft, Inc.

David E. Bennett, Chicago, Ill., for Container Corp. of America.

Thomas G. Slater, Jr., Ray V. Hartwell, III, Douglas W. Kenyon, Richmond, Va., John D. Roady, Houston, Tex., for Chesapeake Corp. of Va.

John D. Roady, Lynda M. Jenkins, Hutcheson & Grundy, Houston, Tex., for Owens-Illinois, Inc.

MacDonald Flinn, New York City, for MacMillan Bloedel, Inc.

David T. Hedges, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Inland Container Corp.

Stephen D. Susman, Susman & McGowan, Houston, Tex., Vance K. Opperman, McGovern, Opperman & Paquin, Minneapolis, Minn., Allen D. Black, Fine, Kaplan and Black, Philadelphia, Pa., Jerry S. Cohen, Kohn, Milstein & Cohen, Washington, D.C., H. Laddie Montague, Jr., Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa., Charles D. Kipple, Saccomanno, Clegg, Martin & Kipple, Houston, Tex., Kenton C. Granger, Anderson, Granger, Nagels & Lastelic, Overland Park, Kan., Lowell E. Sachnoff, Sachnoff, Schrager, Jones, Weaver & Rubenstein, Ltd., Jack Corinblit, Corinblit, Shapero & Seltzer, Los Angeles, Cal., for Adams Cal., Lawrence J. Hayes, Maun, Green, Hayes, Simon, Aretz and Murray, St. Paul, Minn. for Adams Extract Co., et al.

Henry L. King, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, for International Paper Co.

William A. Stearns, Milwaukee, Wis., for Menasha Corp.

David Bland, Houston, Tex., for U. S. Corrugated Fibre-Box Co.

Robert J. Malinak, Houston, Tex., Gottlieb & Schwartz, Chicago, Ill., for Stone Container Corp.

John H. Morrison, Jeffery M. Cross, G. Christian Kronberg, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for Weyerhaeuser Co.

Thomas P. Hanrahan, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for Willamette Industries, Inc.

Michael H. King, Alexander R. Domanskis, Eric S. Palles, Ross, Hardies, O'Keefe, Babcock & Parsons, Chicago, Ill., for Cons. Packaging Corp.

Kael B. Kennedy, Arthur W. Hahn, Lee Ann Watson, Katten, Muchin, Gitles, Zavis, Pearl & Galler, Chicago, Ill., for Interstate Container Corp.

Before TJOFLAT, FAY and FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

The appellate saga of the Corrugated Container antitrust litigation continues.1 In this chapter, we consider two district court orders approving settlements between plaintiff-class representatives and twenty-four of the thirty-seven defendants.2 The appellants in this appeal include two groups of dissident plaintiffs who argue that the settlements are invalid and must be set aside, and...

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