HARPER & ROW PUBLISHERS, INC. v. DECKER

No. 18008.

423 F.2d 487 (1970)

HARPER & ROW PUBLISHERS, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. Honorable Bernard M. DECKER, United States District Judge, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Order March 11, 1970.

Certiorari Granted May 4, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mayer, Friedlich, Spiess, Tierney, Brown & Platt, Schiff, Hardin, Waite, Dorschel & Britton, Sonnenschein, Levinson, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, Lee N. Abrams, H. Templeton Brown, Robert L. Stern, Chicago, Ill., Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for William Morrow & Co., Inc.

W. Donald McSweeney, William A. Montgomery, Chicago, Ill., for The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Earl E. Pollock, Alan Silberman, Chicago, Ill., for Baker & Taylor Co.

Ira M. Millstein, Peter Gruenberger, New York City, for Charles Scribner's Sons, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., Grossett & Dunlap, Inc., Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., Henry Z. Walck, Inc.

Satterlee, Warfield & Stephens, White & Case, Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, Linden & Deutsch, Shea, Gallop, Climenko & Gould, New York City, Leibman, Williams, Bennett, Baird & Minow, Chadwell, Keck, Kayser, Ruggles & McLaren, Brown, Fox & Blumberg, Winston, Strawn, Smith & Patterson, Bergstrom & Olson, Bell, Boyd, Lloyd, Haddad & Burns, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, Ill., Choate, Hall & Stewart, Conrad W. Oberdorfer, Brinton P. Roberts, Boston, Mass., for Houghton Mifflin Co.

William E. Stockhausen, John Horton, New York City, for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

Earl A. Jinkinson, John W. Stack, Chicago, Ill., for Franklin Watts, Inc.

Edgar E. Barton, Kevin L. Carroll, New York City, for McGraw-Hill Book Co.

John J. McHugh, Chicago, Ill., for Charles M. Gardner Co., Imperial Book Co., Associated Libraries, Inc., Melton Book Co., Inc., Sather Gate Book Shop.

Leo Rosen, Roger Hunting, New York City, for Thomas Y. Crowell Co., David McKay Co., Inc.

Samuel Weisbard, David Porter, Chicago, Ill., for Golden Press, Inc.

Bella L. Linden, David Blasband, New York City, for The MacMillan Co.

John T. Loughlin, John C. Christie, Charles A. Tausche, Chicago, Ill., for E. M. Hale and Co.

Bruce Hecker, New York City, David P. List, Kenneth A. Manaster, Chicago, Ill., for Campbell & Hall, Inc.

Nathan Blumberg, Robert W. Bergstrom, Chicago, Ill., for Follett Library Book Co.

Lee A. Freeman, Lee A. Freeman, Jr., Chicago, Ill., William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., John P. Meyer, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ill., Chauncey H. Browning, Jr. Atty. Gen., Gene Hal Williams, Deputy Atty. Gen., State of W. Va., Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen., Wendell C. Hamacher, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ind., Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen., Richard W. Chote, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tex., Paul W. Brown, Atty. Gen., Donald Weckstein, Ted B. Clevenger, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Ohio, Douglas M. Head, Atty. Gen., Roger E. Montgomery, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Minn., Robert W. Warren, Atty. Gen., George F. Sieker, Theodore L. Priebe, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Wis., Kent Frizzel, Atty. Gen., J. Eugene Balloun, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Kan., Raymond F. Simon, Corp. Counsel, City of Chicago, John A. Murray, St. Paul, Minn., for City of St. Paul, and others, David J. Young, Columbus, Ohio, for Archbishop and Bishops of the Six Catholic Dioceses in Ohio, Robert E. Kendrick, Deputy Metropolitan Atty., Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., for respondents Honorable Bernard M. Decker and the Treble Damage Plaintiffs.

Before KILEY, FAIRCHILD and CUMMINGS, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Granted May 4, 1970. See 90 S.Ct. 1523.

PER CURIAM.

In more than forty separate antitrust actions brought in eight judicial districts, plaintiffs, state and local governments, public schools, and public libraries, sought damages from twenty-three defendants (petitioners here), publishers and wholesalers, for alleged conspiracies to inflate the prices for children's editions of library books. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 these actions were transferred...

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