UNITED STATES v. CHAS. PFIZER & CO., INC.

No. 61 Cr. 772.

367 F.Supp. 91 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, v. CHAS. PFIZER & CO., INC., et al., Defendants.

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

November 30, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry G. Sklarsky, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Herman G. Gelfand and Norman H. Seidler, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the United States.

John E. F. Wood, New York City (J. Paul McGrath and Catherine A. Rein, Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, New York City, Julian O. von Kalinowski, Robert E. Cooper and James R. Martin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for defendant Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc.

Samuel W. Murphy, Jr., New York City (Kenneth N. Hart and Richard Y. Holcomb, Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, of counsel), for defendant American Cyanamid Co.

Merrell E. Clark, Jr., New York City (Richard A. Horgan and Stuart M. Reynolds, Jr., Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, New York City, of counsel), for defendant Bristol-Myers Co.


CANNELLA, District Judge.

The motion for acquittal made by each defendant as to each count of the indictment, pursuant to Rule 29 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, is granted. Each defendant is acquitted on each count of the indictment in all respects.

This criminal antitrust prosecution was commenced by the filing of an indictment on August 17, 1961. The indictment charges that the defendants, Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc. (Pfizer), American Cyanamid...

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