STATE OF MINNESOTA v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION

Nos. 4-68 Civ. 37, 4-68 Civ. 36, 4-68 Civ. 38, 4-68 Civ. 41, 3-68 Civ. 34, 3-68 Civ. 37, 3-68 Civ. 39.

299 F.Supp. 596 (1969)

The STATE OF MINNESOTA, The State of North Dakota, State of South Dakota, et al., State of Wisconsin, City of St. Paul, Independent School District #625 of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Paper, Calmenson & Co., St. Paul Foundry & Manufacturing Co. (now The Maxson Corporation), St. Paul Structural Steel Company, Crown Iron Works Company, The Hustad Company, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Minnesota, Third and Fourth Divisions.

May 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erickson, Popham, Haik & Schnobrich, by Bruce D. Willis, Minneapolis, Minn., Roger E. Montgomery, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., and Eric Miller, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiff State of Minnesota.

Erickson, Popham, Haik & Schnobrich, by Bruce D. Willis, Minneapolis, Minn., Paul M. Sand, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Bismarck, N. D., and Robert A. Alphson, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Grand Forks, N. D., for plaintiff State of North Dakota.

Erickson, Popham, Haik & Schnobrich, by Bruce D. Willis, Minneapolis, Minn., and David Gienapp, Pierre, S. D., for plaintiff State of South Dakota, and others.

George F. Sieker and Theodore L. Priebe, Asst. Attys. Gen., Madison, Wis., for plaintiff State of Wisconsin.

O'Connor, Green, Thomas, Walters & Kelly, by H. Robert Halper, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs City of St. Paul, Independent School District #625 of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, The Housing and Redevelopment Authority in and for the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lester E. McAuliffe, Asst. Staff Counsel, City of St. Paul, also appeared for the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Paul; Kenneth J. Fitzpatrick, Asst. Corp. Counsel, also appeared for the City of St. Paul.

Briggs & Morgan, by David W. Raudenbush, John R. Friedman, St. Paul, Minn., and D. B. King, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant United States Steel Corp.

Doherty, Rumble & Butler, by Frank Claybourne and Eugene M. Warlich, St. Paul, Minn., for defendant Paper, Calmenson & Co.

Moore, Costello & Hart, by Robert A. Albrecht, St. Paul, Minn., appeared for defendant St. Paul Foundry & Manufacturing (now The Maxson Corporation).

Fredrikson, Byron & Colborn, by Jerome B. Pederson, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant St. Paul Structural Steel Co.

Oscar A. Brecke and J. Robert Nygren, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Crown Iron Works.

Warner, Ratelle, Hennessy, VanderVort & Stasel, by Frank J. Warner, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant The Hustad Co.


NEVILLE, District Judge.

These private antitrust actions are brought by four States and (originally) four other governmental agencies for treble damages under the Sherman and Clayton Acts against six structural steel fabricating companies. The complaint alleges that the six defendants conspired to fix prices within the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota in the structural steel fabricating industry and that the defendants allocated contracts...

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