IN RE MIDWEST MILK MONOPOLIZATION LITIGATION

No. 19191-1.

405 F.Supp. 118 (1975)

In re MIDWEST MILK MONOPOLIZATION LITIGATION. Robert B. ALEXANDER et al., Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL FARMERS ORGANIZATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Missouri, W. D.

December 16, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Gage and Major W. Park, Jr., Gage, Tucker, Hodges, Kreamer, Kelly & Varner, Harry P. Thomson, Jr., and Geo. E. Leonard, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Kansas City, Mo., for Robert B. Alexander and others, plus Mid-America Dairymen, Inc., a cooperative Corp.

Wm. H. Sanders and David Trowbridge, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Worth Rowley, Rowley & Scott, Robert H. Kapp, David B. Lytle, and Gail Starling Marshall, Washington, D.C., Robert T. Cochran, Nashville, Tenn., for N.F.O. and individuals.

J. L. Parks, Winston, Strawn, Smith & Patterson, Chicago, Ill., Robert A. Goodman, Kansas City, Mo., for Beatrice Foods Co. and Boswell Dairies Co.

John C. Chernauskas, Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., for Earl Butz, Secretary of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

Richard F. Mitchell, Atty. Tax. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Johnnie Walters, Comm. I.R.S.

Colvin A. Peterson, Jr., Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas, David R. Hardy, Shook, Hardy, Ottman, Mitchell & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., Melville C. Williams, Kael B. Kennedy, Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle, Martin F. Burns, Chicago, Ill., Stuart H. Russell, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Sidney Harris, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D.C., for Associated Milk Producers, Inc., Associated Reserve Standby Pool, a cooperative corp., and Wesley J. Johnson, Gary Hanman, Harold S. Nelson and David Parr.

Sidney C. Berde, Berde, Leonard & Weinblatt, St. Paul, Minn., Thomas J. Wheatley and Wm. M. Stapleton, Lathrop, Koontz, Righter, Clagett, Parker & Norquist, Kansas City, Mo., for Central Milk Producers Cooperative.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER DENYING AMPI'S MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

JOHN W. OLIVER, District Judge.

I.

This case pends on the motion of Associated Milk Producers, Inc. [AMPI] for a temporary restraining order filed November 25, 1975 in which AMPI prayed that an order be entered to prevent the National Farmers Organization [NFO] from republishing in the 1975 issue of The NFO Reporter an article by one Louis Kohlmeier which was initially syndicated...

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