UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN OIL COMPANY

Crim. No. 153-65.

249 F.Supp. 130 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, v. The AMERICAN OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court D. New Jersey.

December 30, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Satz, Jr., U. S. Atty., by Donald Horowitz, Asst. U. S. Atty., Bernard Wehrmann, Dept. of Justice, for the Government.

McCarter & English, by Merritt Lane, Jr., Newark, N. J., for Atlantic Refining Co.; Howrey, Simon, Baker & Murchison, by Harold F. Baker, Terrence C. Sheehy, Washington, D. C., Edward J. Kremer, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.

Pitney, Hardin & Kipp, by Donald B. Kipp, Newark, N. J., for Sinclair Refining Co.; Wickes, Riddell, Bloomer, Jacobi & McGuire, by Harold F. McGuire, D. K. McIntosh, Frank R. Clampitt, J. Howard Marshall, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Carey & Jardine, by Robert Carey, Jr., Newark, N. J., for Gulf Oil Corp.; Kissam & Halpin, by Leo T. Kissam, Anthony S. Genovese, Frederick L. Scofield, Arthur Vangeli, New York City, Jesse P. Luton, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel.

Stickel & Stickel, by Fred G. Stickel, Jr., Newark, N. J., for American Oil Co.; Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, by Hammond E. Chaffetz, Chicago, Ill., Ronald S. Daniels, New York City, Sam L. Erwin, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Milton, Keane & DeBona, by Joseph Keane, Jersey City, N. J., for Cities Service Oil Co. and Cities Service Co.; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, by Simon H. Rifkind, Jay H. Topkis, George H. Colin, New York City, of counsel.

Stryker, Tams & Dill, by William L. Dill, Jr., Newark, N. J., for Humble Oil & Refining Co.; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, by A. Donald MacKinnon, Henry F. Hartmann, New York City, Dillard W. Baker, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Riker, Danzig, Scherer & Brown, by Dickinson R. Debevoise, Newark, N. J., for Socony Mobil Oil Co. Inc.; Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, by John E. F. Wood, Edward N. Sherry, Charles F. Rice, New York City, of counsel.


WORTENDYKE, District Judge:

Defendants have brought three motions to dismiss the indictment in this case. This opinion relates to motion number 1.

On April 8, 1965 the Grand Jury in and for the District of New Jersey returned its indictment charging the defendant corporations, sellers of gasoline within a trading area covered by the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, with having conspired, during the period stated in the indictment, to unreasonably...

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