CITY OF DETROIT v. GRINNELL CORPORATION

Nos. 14, 18, Dockets 73-1211, 73-1420.

495 F.2d 448 (1974)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 13, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey S. Kronfeld, Philadelphia (Mesirov, Gelman, Jaffe & Levin and Anthony E. Creato, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellants Aldon Industries, Incorporated and 19 other objectors.

William Simon, Washington, D.C. (Howrey, Simon, Baker & Murchison and G. Joseph King, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for appellants Bay Fair Shopping Center, and others, claimants.

David Berger, Philadelphia, Pa. (David Berger, P.A. and H. Laddie Montague, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellees City of Detroit, Manhattan-Ward, Inc., 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc., Class Representatives.

Gordon B. Spivak, New York City (Lord, Day & Lord, Herbert Brownell, Thomas D. Brislen, New York City, David Berger, P.A., Philadelphia, Pa., David Berger, and H. Laddie Montague, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellees David Berger and David Berger, P.A., Counsel for Class Representatives.

Denis McInerney, New York City (Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, Thomas Curnin and Allen S. Joslyn, New York City, of counsel), for appellee Grinnell Corp.; (White & Case, MacDonald Flinn, Thomas McGanney, Mario Diaz-Cruz III, New York City, of counsel), for appellee American District Telegraph Company; (Kelley, Drye, Warren, Clark, Carr & Ellis and Bud G. Holman, New York City of counsel), for appellee Holmes Electric Protective Company; (Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell & Weyher, William F. Sondericker, and Joseph M. Burke, New York City, of counsel), for appellee Automatic Fire Alarm Co.

Barry Brett, New York City (Parker, Chapin & Flattau, Alvin M. Stein, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, A. Paul Victor, Freda F. Bein, Liebman, Eulau, Robinson & Perlman, Herbert Robinson, New York City, of counsel), for appellees pro se.

Before MOORE and HAYS, Circuit Judges, and BRYAN, District Judge.


MOORE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the District Court's approval of a proposed settlement, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, of three consolidated private antitrust national class actions brought in October, 1968, by commercial, industrial and governmental subscribers of "central station protection services" against four defendant corporations to recover treble damages plus attorneys' fees and costs under Section 4 of the Clayton...

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