CITY OF DETROIT v. GRINNELL CORPORATION

Nos. 68 Civ. 4026, 4028 and 4027.

356 F.Supp. 1380 (1972)

CITY OF DETROIT et al., Plaintiffs, v. GRINNELL CORPORATION et al., Defendants. MANHATTAN-WARD, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. GRINNELL CORPORATION et al., Defendants. 1225 VINE STREET BUILDING, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. GRINNELL CORPORATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

December 27, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Berger, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs; H. Laddie Montague, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.

Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel & Ohl, New York City, for defendant Grinnell Corp.; Denis McInerney, Thomas F. Curnin, Allen S. Joslyn, Joseph Foley, New York City, of counsel.

White & Case, New York City, for defendant American District Telegraph Co.; Macdonald Flinn, Thomas McGanney, New York City, of counsel.

Kelley, Drye, Warren, Clark, Carr & Ellis, New York City, for defendant Holmes Electric Protective Co.; Francis S. Bensel, Bud G. Holman, New York City, of counsel.

Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell & Weyher, New York City, for defendant Automatic Fire Alarm Co.; William F. Sondericker, Joseph M. Burke, New York City, of counsel.

Lord, Day & Lord, New York City and Harold E. Kohn, Philadelphia, Pa., for David Berger; Herbert Brownell, Gordon B. Spivack, New York City, of counsel.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Liebman, Eulau, Robinson & Perlman, and Parker, Chapin & Flattau, New York City, liason counsel for subscriber plaintiffs; Ira M. Millstein, A. Paul Victor, Jane R. Levine, Alvin M. Stein, Barry J. Brett, Herbert Robinson, New York City, of counsel.

Mesirov, Gelman, Jaffe & Levin, Philadelphia, Pa., for 20 claimants; Harvey S. Kronfeld, Anthony E. Creato, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for claimants General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and others; Simon H. Rifkind, Max Gitter, New York City, of counsel.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, for claimants Dollar Savings Bank of New York, United Mutual Savings Bank, and others; George D. Reycraft, New York City, of counsel.

Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, for claimant R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.; Taggart Whipple, Daniel F. Kolb, New York City, of counsel.

Donovan, Leisure Newton & Irvine, New York City, for claimants American Cyanamid Co. and Shulton Inc.; Samuel W. Murphy, Jr., Thomas F. Munno, New York City, of counsel.

Breed, Abbott & Morgan, New York City, for claimant Graybar Electric Co.; Thomas A. Shaw, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Royall, Koegel & Wells, New York City, for claimant Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Cutler & Cutler, New York City, for claimant Container Corp. of America; Max Cutler, New York City, of counsel.

Botein, Hays, Sklar & Herzberg, New York City, for claimant Hart Schaffner & Marx and others; Nathaniel Whitehorn, New York City, of counsel.

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York City, for claimant SuCrest Corp. and others; Henry J. Silberberg, New York City, of counsel.

Mortimer M. Lerner, and Sidney L. Cramoy, New York City, for claimant Fran Stef Corp.

Trubin, Sillcocks, Edelman & Knapp, New York City, for claimant Alexander's; David N. Goldsweig, New York City, of counsel.

Howrey, Simon, Baker & Murchison, Washington, D. C., for claimant Bay Shore Shopping Center and others; William Simon, G. Joseph King, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, D. C., for claimant Wald, Harkrader & Ross; Joel E. Hoffman, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Leon P. Calafiura, New York City, for claimant Sanders Camera Shops, Inc.

Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, Philadelphia, Pa., for three claimants; M. Rust Sharp, R. W. Stewart, of counsel.

Claude Jack, New York City, for claimant Celanese Corp.

Richard Sexton, Brooklyn, N. Y., for claimant SCM Corp.

Richard H. Lange, New York City, for claimant Mohasco Industries, Inc.

Walter D. Ford, Wilmington, Del., for claimant E. I. duPont.


METZNER, District Judge:

The parties have moved for court approval of a proposed settlement of three national class actions and for a reasonable counsel fee in what has been known as the "central station protection service" litigation.

I. THE SETTLEMENT

In 1966 the Supreme Court affirmed a judgment in favor of the government in an action seeking relief for alleged violations of §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act by Grinnell Corporation and three...

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