CONSUMERS UNION OF U. S., INC. v. ROGERS

Civ. A. No. 1029-72.

352 F.Supp. 1319 (1973)

CONSUMERS UNION OF U. S., INC., Plaintiff, v. William P. ROGERS, Secretary of State, et al.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Brodsky, Richard Frank, Center for Law & Social Policy, Washington, D. C., for Consumers Union of U. S., Inc., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Victor H. Kramer, Washington, D. C. of counsel.

Irwin Goldbloom, David Anderson, Civ. Div., Irving Jaffe, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for William P. Rogers, Secretary of State, and Julius L. Katz, Ass't Sec. of State.

Abe Krash, Daniel Z. Rezneck, Jerome I. Chapman, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D. C., Orison S. Marden, Haliburton Fales 2d, White & Case, New York City, for United States Steel Corp.

Max O. Truitt, Jr., Lloyd Cutler, Daniel K. Mayers, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D. C., Richard L. Grimwade, Bartlett H. McGuire, Richard E. Nolan, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, for American Iron and Steel Institute.

Noel Hemmendinger, Nelson A. Stitt, John A. Kennedy, Jr., Stitt, Hemmendinger & Kennedy, Washington, D. C., Isaac Shapiro, of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York City, for Japan Iron and Steel Exporters Assn.

Milo G. Coerper, Washington, D. C., for Fried, Krupp Huttenwerke, A.G.

Monroe Leigh, Richard A. Whiting, Daniel J. Plaine, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D. C., William B. Pennell, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, for British Steel Corp.

Noel Hemmendinger, Nelson A. Stitt, John A. Kennedy, Jr., Washington, D. C., for Nippon Steel Corp.


MEMORANDUM OPINION, DECLARATION AND ORDER

GESELL, District Judge.

Consumers Union of U. S., Inc., by amended complaint filed October 5, 1972, has challenged the legality of so-called Voluntary Restraint Arrangements on Steel which were mutually made between certain foreign steel companies as a result of negotiations initiated by the Secretary of State at the direction of the President. Under these arrangements, nine Japanese steel companies, British Steel...

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