UNITED STATES v. LEGGETT & PLATT, INC.

No. 75-1719.

542 F.2d 655 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LEGGETT & PLATT, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 29, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Plesec, Anti-Trust Div., Dept. of Justice, Cleveland, Ohio, Thomas E. Kauper, Howard E. Shapiro, Chief App. Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert J. Wiggers, Donald I. Baker, Washington, D. C., Barry Grossman, Atty., Antitrust Div., Dept. of Justice, for plaintiff-appellant.

Murray S. Monroe, John R. Phillips, Cincinnati, Ohio, for defendant-appellee.

Before EDWARDS and PECK, Circuit Judges, and CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.


JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.

On May 15, 1971, the government filed the instant civil antitrust action against defendant-appellee Leggett and Platt ("LP") to require LP to divest itself of the March 31, 1968 stock acquisition of Detroit-based Motor City Spring Company and the January 2, 1969, assets acquisition of Cincinnati-based J. R. Greeno Company. On January 3, 1975, LP filed amended requests for the government to produce certain documents, including documents...

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