IN RE COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS, ETC.

No. 4-71 Civ. 435.

410 F.Supp. 669 (1974)

In re COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS IN ANTIBIOTIC ANTITRUST ACTIONS.

United States District Court D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

March 21, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Johnson, Atty. Gen., Salem, Ore., for State of Oregon.

Ferguson & Burdell, Seattle, Wash., for State of Washington.

Law Offices of Joseph L. Alioto, San Francisco, Cal., for States of Hawaii and Utah.

Thomas M. O'Connor, City Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for City and County of San Francisco; County Counsel's Office, Los Angeles, Cal., for County of Los Angeles; Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for State of California.

Curt T. Schneider, Atty. Gen., and Crane, Martin, Claussen, Hamilton & Barry, Topeka, Kan., for State of Kansas.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, and Dorsey, Marquart, Windhorst, West & Halladay, Minneapolis, Minn., for American Cyanamid Company.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal., Maun, Hazel, Green, Hayes, Simon & Aretz, St. Paul, Minn., and Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for Pfizer Inc.

Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, New York City, and Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Bristol-Myers Co.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, and Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Squibb Corporation and Olin Corporation.

Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., and Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for the Upjohn Company.


MEMORANDUM OPINION APPROVING SETTLEMENTS

MILES W. LORD, District Judge.

The parties have moved the Court pursuant to Rule 23(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for approval of the proposed settlement of these class actions.

BACKGROUND

These six class actions are a part of the more than 150 actions brought against defendants since 1968 alleging that defendants, beginning in 1953, conspired to and did monopolize the manufacture...

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