UNITED STATES v. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 49 C-1071.

177 F.Supp. 1 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, General Motors Corporation, Christiana Securities Company, and Delaware Realty & Investment Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

October 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George D. Reycraft, Eugene Metzger, Bill G. Andrews, Edmund D. Ludlow, and Paul A. Owens, Antitrust Division, Washington, D. C., for the Government.

Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, by George Ragland, Jr., Chicago, Ill., and Covington & Burling, by Hugh B. Cox, John Lord O'Brian, Charles A. Horsky, Daniel M. Gribbon, and Alvin Friedman, Washington, D. C., for defendant, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.

Charles A. Rittenhouse III, and Irving S. Shapiro, Wilmington, Del., for Legal Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.

Mayer, Friedlich, Spiess, Tierney, Brown & Platt, by Leo F. Tierney, Bryson P. Burnham, and Lee N. Abrams, Chicago, Ill., and Henry M. Hogan and Robert A. Nitschke, Detroit, Mich., for defendant, General Motors Corp.

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, by Howard Ellis and Don H. Reuben, Chicago, Ill., Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, by Wilkie Bushby, Philip C. Scott, and Aram J. Kevorkian, New York City, for defendant, Christiana Securities Co. and Delaware Realty & Investment Corp.

Andrew J. Dallstream, Milton H. Cohen, and Burton R. Rissman, Chicago, Ill., amicus curiæ with respect to interest of Stockholders of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.

Manuel E. Cowen and Francis M. Clamitz, Associate Counsel, Chicago, Ill., amicus curiæ with respect to interest of Stockholders of General Motors Corp.


LA BUY, District Judge.

On June 3, 1957, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the acquisition by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company of approximately 63,000,000 shares of common stock of General Motors Corporation violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 18. It remanded the case to this Court "for a determination, after further hearing, of the equitable relief necessary and appropriate in the public interest to eliminate the effects...

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