IN RE FTC CORPORATE PATTERNS REPORT LITIGATION

Misc. Nos. 76-0126, 76-0127.

432 F.Supp. 274 (1977)

In re FTC CORPORATE PATTERNS REPORT LITIGATION. In re FTC LINE OF BUSINESS REPORT LITIGATION.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Tait, Lee A. Rau, John M. Wood, Stuart M. Gerson, and Thomas H. Reilly of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Washington, D.C., for American Air Filter Co., Inc.; American Home Products Corp.; The Boeing Co.; Burlington Industries, Inc.; The Carrier Corp.; Celanese Corp.; Digital Equipment Corp.; Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.; Eaton Corp.; Jim Walter Corp.; The LTV Corp.; Mine Safety Appliances Co.; Monsanto Co.; Outboard Marine Corp.; Pittsburgh Forgings Co.; Raytheon Co.; Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.; Reynolds Metals Co.; A.O. Smith Corp.; Texas Instruments, Inc.; W.R. Grace & Co.; and Xerox Corp.

Ira M. Millstein, Mark A. Jacoby, and Salem M. Katsh of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for Chamber of Commerce of United States; Allegheny Ludlum Industries Inc.; Aluminum Co. of America; Anchor Hocking Corp.; Armco Steel Corp.; Brown Group, Inc.; The Coca-Cola Co.; Dairylea Cooperative, Inc.; Diamond International Corp.; Dr. Pepper Co.; E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co.; General Electric Co.; General Motors Corp.; The B.F. Goodrich Co.; Gulf & Western Industries, Inc.; Handy & Harman; Hoerner Waldorf Corp.; Howmet Corp.; Hudson Pulp & Paper Corp.; Ingersoll-Rand Co.; International Harvester Co.; International Paper Co.; Johns-Manville Corp.; Kane Miller Corp.; Kohler Co.; Kraftco Corp.; Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.; Loews Corp.; Mattel, Inc.; Occidental Petroleum Corp.; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Revlon, Inc.; Rubbermaid Inc.; The Rucker Co.; Savannah Foods & Industries, Inc.; Sperry Rand Corp.; Sterling Drug, Inc.; Thiokol Corp.; The Times Mirror Co.; Union Carbide Corp.; United States Steel Corp.; Universal Foods Corp.; USM Corp.; and Warner Communications, Inc.

John F. McClatchey and Leslie W. Jacobs of Thompson, Hine & Flory, Cleveland, Ohio, for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; Hobart Corp.; and Van Dorn Co.

J. Randolph Wilson, John S. Koch, Steven S. Rosenthal, and Philip C. Stahl of Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Chamber of Commerce of United States; Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.; American Can Co.; Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.; Armstrong Cork Co.; Asarco Inc.; Brockway Glass Co., Inc.; Campbell Soup Co.; Carnation Co.; Eli Lilly and Co.; Emery Industries, Inc.; Faberge, Inc.; Fuqua Industries, Inc.; General Telephone & Electronics Corp.; Gerber Products Co.; Harris Corp.; Inland Container Corp.; International Business Machines Corp.; International Multifoods Corp.; Kellwood Co.; The Marley Co.; Miles Laboratories, Inc.; Nabisco, Inc.; PPG Industries, Inc.; The Procter & Gamble Co.; R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.; Scott Paper Co.; Standard Brands Inc.; The Trane Co.; United States Filter Corp.; Westinghouse Electric Corp.; Wheelabrator-Frye Inc.; Whittaker Corp.; and Wyman-Gordon Co.

Richard W. Pogue of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio, and Mark Elliot Mazo and John C. Reitz of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., for American Greetings Corp.; Cooper Industries, Inc.; Diamond Shamrock Corp.; The B.F. Goodrich Co.; Hershey Foods Corp.; Lear Siegler, Inc.; Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.; The Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co.; The Ohio Brass Co.; Reliance Electric Co.; The Scott & Fetzer Co.; The Sherwin-Williams Co.; The Tappan Co.; The Timken Co.; TRW Inc.; and The Weatherhead Co.

Robert E. Jordan, III, Robert M. Goolrick, and Michael K. Wyatt of Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C., and Edward E. Vaill and Michael J. Myers of Atlantic Richfield Co., Los Angeles, Cal., for Atlantic Richfield Co.

Michael K. Wyatt of Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C., for Fairmont Foods Co.

Philip A. Lacovara, Gerald Goldman, and David M. Becker of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, Washington, D.C., for Allen-Bradley Co. and Merck & Co., Inc.

Frank P. Cihlar and James R. Henderson, IV, of Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, D.C., for CPC International, Inc.; Cargill, Inc.; Inland Steel Co.; Northwest Industries, Inc.; Oscar Mayer & Co., Inc.; Ross Industries, Inc.; and Sundstrand Corp.

John F. Graybeal and Robert C. Houser, Jr., of Foley, Lardner, Hollabaugh & Jacobs, Washington, D.C., for Square D Co.

William Simon, Harold F. Baker, David C. Murchison, J. Wallace Adair, John DeQ. Briggs, and Stuart H. Harris of Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C., for American Cyanamid Co.; Anheuser-Busch, Inc.; E.T. Barwick Industries, Inc.; The Black and Decker Manufacturing Co.; Caterpillar Tractor Co.; The Ceco Corp.; Cities Service Co.; City Investing Co.; Congoleum Corp.; Consolidated Foods Corp.; Del Monte Corp.; The Dow Chemical Co.; Exxon Corp.; General Mills, Inc.; H.J. Heinz Co.; Heublein, Inc.; Household Finance Corp.; ICI Americas, Inc.; Koppers Co., Inc.; Litton Industries, Inc.; Martin Marietta Corp.; McGraw-Edison Co.; Mead Corp.; National Can Corp.; National Gypsum Co.; Oxford Industries, Inc.; Paccar Inc.; Pepsico, Inc.; Phillips Petroleum Co.; Rockwell International Corp.; Shell Oil Co.; Simplicity Pattern Co., Inc.; Simpson Timber Co.; Standard Oil Co. of California; Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); Standard Pressed Steel Co.; Sunbeam Corp.; Timex Corp.; United Brands Co.; and West Point-Pepperell, Inc.

Jack L. Lipson, Andrew S. Krulwich, and Hadrian R. Katz of Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., for Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and Lone Star Industries, Inc.

Philip J. Davis of Kirkland, Ellis & Rowe, Washington, D.C., and Donald G. Kempf, Jr. and Joseph F. Coyne of Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for Chemetron Corp.; Dean Foods Co.; The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; FMC Corp.; Harnischfeger Corp.; Kirsch Co.; Lehigh Portland Cement Co.; Motorola, Inc.; Polaroid Corp.; and Rexnord, Inc.

Peter Fleming, Jr., Eliot Lauer, and Samuel F. Abernethy of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, New York City, for Dover Corp.

James F. Rill and Kathleen E. McDermott of Collier, Shannon, Rill, Edwards & Scott, Washington, D.C., for Carpenter Technology Corp.; Kohler Co.; Safeway Stores, Inc.; and A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co.

Theodore A. Groenke and Harold J. Bressler of McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, Ill., for Kohler Co. and A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co.

James F. Bromley of Macleay, Lynch, Bernhard & Gregg, Washington, D.C., for United States Gypsum Co.

Harold S. Barron and Noel C. Crowley of The Bendix Corp., Southfield, Mich., for The Bendix Corp.

Arloe Mayne, Gen. Counsel, Ashland Oil, Inc., Ashland, Ky., and Ronald P. Wertheim of Ginsburg, Feldman & Bress, Washington, D.C., for Ashland Oil, Inc.

Milton J. Schubin and Richard C. Seltzer of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, for GAF Corp.

Daniel K. Mayers and Neil J. King of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., and James R. DeVita of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for American Standard, Inc.; The Babcock & Wilcox Co.; Ford Motor Co.; The General Tire & Rubber Co.; and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.

James M. Porter of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, Ohio, and William C. Collishaw of Cox, Langford & Brown, Washington, D.C., for White Consolidated Industries, Inc.

David S. Pennock of Alexander & Green, New York City, for Cerro-Marmon Corp.

Samuel K. Abrams and Wilbur L. Fugate of Morison, Murphy, Abrams & Haddock, Washington, D.C., for Cone Mills Corp. and The Sperry and Hutchinson Co.

Raymond E. Vickery, Jr., of Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C., for Hughes Tool Co. and Republic Steel Corp.

Ramsay D. Potts and Steven L. Meltzer of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, D.C., for Emerson Electric Co.

Leonard I. Horowitz of Times Mirror Co., New York City, for Times Mirror Co.

Barry Hirsch of Loews Corp., New York City, for Loews Corp., Milton Wolson and Edwin Silverstone of SCM Corp., New York City, and S. White Rhyne, Jr., of Mullin, Connor & Rhyne, Washington, D.C., for SCM Corp.

Sydney B. Wertheimer of Weisman, Celler, Spett, Modlin, Wertheimer & Schlessinger, New York City, for Fedders Corp.

Paul J. Newlon and Victoria G. Traube of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for Milliken & Co.

Fred L. Woodworth of Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg, Detroit, Mich., for Overhead Door Corp. and Champion Home Builders Co.

Philip W. Schaefer of Texaco Inc., New York City, for Texaco Inc.

Jesse P. Luton, Jr., John E. Bailey, and Kevin F. Cunningham of The Gulf Companies, Houston, Tex., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Joseph W. Burns of Burns, Van Kirk, Greene & Kafer, New York City, for Ingersoll-Rand Co.

Albert R. Connelly and Andrew D. Postal of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for Bethlehem Steel Corp.; Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.; Kellogg Co.; Olin Corp.; Republic Steel Corp.; Rhinechem Corp.; and Time Inc.

Edwin S. Rockefeller and Alan M. Frey of Bierbower & Rockefeller, Washington, D.C., for Norton Simon Inc.

Norman Solovay of Holtzmann, Wise & Shepard, New York City, and Leonard M. Kessler of Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York City, for Chrysler Corp.

Charles H. McAuliffe of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., for Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.

David J. Lewis and Elroy H. Wolff of Sidley & Austin, Washington, D.C., for Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. and Kimberly-Clark Corp.

Robert D. Tyler, Jr., Chicago, Ill., of Beatrice Foods Co., Chicago, Ill., and John R. Reilly of Winston & Strawn, Washington, D.C., for Beatrice Foods Co., Rorer-Amchem, Inc., Fort Washington, Pa.

Kenneth Schnapper of Crane Co., New York City, for Crane Co., Eve E. Bachrach of Stein, Mitchell & Mezines, Washington, D.C., for C.I.T. Financial Corp. and Food Fair Stores, Inc.

Thomas C. Morrison of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, for Johnson & Johnson.

Dennis M. Sheedy of Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Johnson & Hutchison, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Cyclops Corp.

Donald J. Mulvihill and Gerald J. Brown of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, Washington, D.C., for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc.

Andrew J. Kilcarr of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, Washington, D.C., and Thomas R. Trowbridge, III, of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, and Charles F. Rice of Mobil Oil Corp., New York City, for Mobil Oil Corp.

Donald G. McCabe and Anthony B. Barton of Hall, McNicol, Hamilton & Clark, New York City, for American Maize-Products Co.

Charles Kadish, of Breed, Abbott & Morgan, New York City, for Honeywell, Inc.

Gilbert H. Weil and Robert L. Sherman of Weil, Guttman & Davis, New York City, for Bristol-Myers Co.

Caswell O. Hobbs, III, and David W. Huston of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D.C., for American Stores Co.

David C. Trowbridge of Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., for Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Ronald G. Precup of Nussbaum & Owen, Washington, D.C., for American Beef Packers, Inc.

Stephen Kurzman of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, Washington, D.C., for Bausch & Lomb, Inc.; Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp., Buffalo, N.Y., NL Industries, Inc., New York City, R.T. French Co., Rochester, N.Y.

Larry L. Williams and Robert J. Pope of Clifford, Glass, McIlwain & Finney, Washington, D.C., for The Continental Group, Inc. (formerly Continental Can Co., Inc.).

Eve E. Bachrach, Washington D.C., for Food Fair Stores, Inc.

Stein, Mitchell, Mezines, Washington, D.C., for C.I.T. Financial Corp.

Larry L. Williams and Robert J. Pope, of Clifford, Glass, McIlwain & Finney, Washington D.C., for Continental Group, Inc.

Jack E. Thornton, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, David J. Anderson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Comptroller General.

Gerald P. Norton, Deputy Gen. Counsel, F.T.C., Robert J. Lewis, Gen. Counsel, F.T.C., Jerold D. Cummins, Acting Asst. Gen. Counsel, F.T.C., Warren S. Grimes, Atty., F.T.C., L. Wayne Krug, F.T.C., Washington, D.C., for the F.T.C.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

FLANNERY, District Judge.

This matter arises before the court in a number of consolidated enforcement and preenforcement cases. These actions concern the Federal Trade Commission's information-gathering activities in connection with the Line of Business Program (LB) and the Corporate Patterns Report Survey (CPR). The consolidated cases include the FTC's enforcement action against various corporations that have failed to comply...

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