UNITED STATES v. PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 1196-52.

180 F.Supp. 195 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court D. New Jersey.

Supplemental Opinion February 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester A. Weidenburner, U. S. Atty., by Charles H. Hoens, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Newark, N. J., Margaret H. Brass, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

O'Mara, Schumann, Davis & Lynch, Jersey City, N. J., Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl, by Mathias F. Correa, New York City, for Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Bailey & Schenck, Newark, N. J., Arnold, Fortas & Porter, by Abe Fortas, Washington, D. C., for Lever Bros. Co.

Toner, Crowley, Woelper & Vanderbilt, Newark, N. J., Royall, Koegel, Harris & Caskey, by Kenneth C. Royall, New York City, Dinsmore, Shohl, Dinsmore & Todd, by Joseph C. Dinsmore, Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, by Charles Sawyer, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Procter & Gamble Co.

Davies, Richberg, Tydings, Landa & Duff, by Shelby Fitze, Washington, D. C., McCarter & English, Newark, N. J., for Association of American Soap & Glycerine Producers, Inc.


HARTSHORNE, District Judge.

In seeking to implement the opinion of our highest Court in this very case, United States v. Procter & Gamble Co., 1957, 356 U.S. 677, 78 S.Ct. 983, 2 L.Ed. 2d 1077, this Court held, in its opinion filed herein on June 9, 1959, 174 F.Supp. 233, 235 (D.C.N.J.):

"The critical question thus is, when this case first became only `a civil case.' From that time...

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