APPLETON ELECTRIC CO. v. ADVANCE-UNITED EXPRESSWAYS

No. 73-1665.

494 F.2d 126 (1974)

APPLETON ELECTRIC COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ADVANCE-UNITED EXPRESSWAYS et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter V. Fazio, Sr., Michael W. Ford, James B. O'Shaughnessy, Chicago, Ill., Arthur Hauver, Denver, Colo., for defendants-appellants.

Jay A. Canel, Lawrence E. Morrissey, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, SPRECHER, Circuit Judge and POOS, Senior District Judge.


SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal considers the manageability of a class action with a multi-million member plaintiff class and a thousandplus defendant class. The district court defined a class of plaintiffs (perhaps several million shippers) and a class of defendants (perhaps 1,400 motor carriers) who shipped goods in interstate commerce between May 20, 1968 through August 29, 1969 within a region covered by tariff rates...

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