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IN RE BEEF INDUSTRY ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Nos. 78-1817—78-1829.

600 F.2d 1148 (1979)

In re BEEF INDUSTRY ANTITRUST LITIGATION, MDL DOCKET NO. 248. PONY CREEK CATTLE CO., INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Musselman Ranch Co., etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, v. The GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO. et al., Defendants-Appellees. R. Dirk AGEE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. MEAT PRICE INVESTIGATORS ASSOCIATION, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. Richard S. LOWE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. A. L. BLACK et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALBERTSON'S, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees (two cases). CHAPARRAL CATTLE CORP., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. Burke PETERSEN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. Ronald BECKER et al., on behalf of themselves and all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. John O. VARIAN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. MEAT PRICE INVESTIGATORS ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees. LITTLE RANCH CO., INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FOOD CHAINS, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees. Ronald BECKER et al., on behalf of themselves and all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAFEWAY STORES, INC., etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 17, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben L. Krage, Kasmir, Willingham & Krage, Dallas, Tex., for Pony Creek, et al.

Lowell V. Summerhays, Robinson, Guyon, Summerhays & Barnes, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Varian, et al., Chaparral Cattle Corp., et al. and Petersen, et al.

Robert R. Eidsmoe, Gleysteen, Harper, Kunze, Eidsmoe & Heidman, Sioux City, Iowa, Burt A. Braverman, Frances Chetwynd, Washington, D. C., for Lowe, et al.

Lex Hawkins, Glenn L. Norris, Hawkins & Norris, Des Moines, Iowa, John A. Cochrane, Cochrane & Bresnahan, St. Paul, Minn., for Meat Price Investigators Ass'n, et al. and Becker, et al.

James W. Witherspoon, Donald L. Davis, Witherspoon, Aikin & Langley, Hereford, Tex., for Black, et al.

Joseph M. Alioto, Steven J. Cannata, Law Offices of Joseph L. Alioto, San Francisco, Cal., for Little Ranch Co.

W. Randolph Elliott, Baker, Glast, Riddle, Tuttle & Elliott, Dallas, Tex., for intervenors—Powell Cattle Co., et al.

Jess B. Hawley, Jr., Hawley, Troxell, Ennis & Hawley, Boise, Idaho, for Albertson's, Inc., Skaggs-Albertson's.

Sheldon S. Toll, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, Mich., for Allied Supermarkets, Inc.

Benjamin M. Quigg, Jr., Stephen W. Armstrong, James J. Rodgers, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., H. Dudley Chambers, Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller, Dallas, Tex., for American Stores Co. f/k/a Acme Markets, Inc.

Roy Lewis Shults, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles, Cal., for Arden-Mayfair, Inc.

Sylvan Rapaport, c/o Borman's, Inc., Detroit, Mich., for Borman's, Inc.

George B. Haley, Jr., Kilpatrick, Cody, Rogers, McClatchey & Regenstein, Atlanta, Ga., Robert W. Coleman, Stalcup, Johnson, Meyers & Miller, Dallas, Tex., for Colonial Stores, Inc.

John D. Leech, Calfee, Halter & Griswold, Cleveland, Ohio, for First Nat. Stores, Inc.

David A. Rosen, Stein, Rosen & Ohrenstein, New York City, for Food Fair Stores, Inc.

H. Kenneth Kudon, Danzansky, Dickey, Tydings, Quint & Gordon, Washington, D. C., for Giant Food, Inc.

Kenneth A. Plevan, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, for The Grand Union Co.

Wilson W. Herndon, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, Tex., for Liaison Counsel.

Denis McInerney, Thomas F. Curnin, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, for The Great Atlantic & Pac. Tea Co., Inc.

Theodore A. Groenke, Walter M. Jones, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, Ill., for Jewel Companies, Inc.

Alexander E. Bennett, Norman Diamond, Washington, D. C., Wilson W. Herndon, Strasburger & Price, Dallas, Tex., for The Kroger Co.

Arnold M. Lerman, C. Loring Jetton, Jr., Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D. C., Jerry L. Buchmeyer, Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion, Dallas, Tex., for Lucky Stores, Inc.

James F. Rill, Martin A. Rosen, Collier, Shannon, Rill, Edwards & Scott, Washington, D. C., John L. Hauer, Richard C. Levin, Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, Tex., for The Nat. Ass'n of Food Chains.

Jeffrey S. Davidson, Fred H. Bartlett, Jr., Daniel Edelman, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for Nat. Provisioner, Inc.

Franklin P. Auwarter, Kenneth J. Jurek, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., for National Tea Co.

Peter D. Standish, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for Pueblo Intern., Inc.

Les J. Weinstein, Aaron M. Peck, McKenna & Fitting, Los Angeles, Cal., for Ralph's Grocery Co.

Richard W. Odgers, John B. Bates, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., W. B. West, III, William F. Carroll, Clark, West, Keller, Sanders & Butler, Dallas, Tex., for Safeway Stores, Inc.

Michael R. Murphy, Donald B. Holbrook, Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Skaggs Companies, Inc., Skaggs-Albertson's.

Robert D. Paul, Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, Boston, Mass., Stanley E. Neely, Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely, Dallas, Tex., for The Stop & Shop Companies, Inc.

Geoffrey M. Kalmus, Nickerson, Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen, Kamin & Soll, New York City, T. L. Caudle, III, Coke & Coke, Dallas, Tex., for Supermarkets General Corp.

Michael E. Bress, Dorsey, Windhorst, Hannaford, Whitney, Halladay, Minneapolis, Minn., for Super Valu Stores, Inc.

Timothy J. Sargent, Bodkin, McCarthy, Sargent & Smith, Los Angeles, Cal., for Thriftmart, Inc.

Ronald L. Olson, Munger, Tolles & Ricker-Hauser, Los Angeles, Cal., for Vons Grocery Co.

Chester Bedell, John A. DeVault, III, Charles P. Pillans, Bedell, Bedell, Dittmar & Zehmer, Jacksonville, Fla., Charles P. Storey, John K. DeLay Jr., Storey, Armstrong, Steger & Martin, Dallas, Tex., for Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.

Before WISDOM, HILL, and FAY, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated appeals involve the applicability of Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 1977, 431 U.S. 720, 97 S.Ct. 2061, 52 L.Ed.2d 707, to sales by primary producers to middlemen at prices allegedly depressed by price-fixing at the retail level of distribution. The appeals also present other difficult questions concerning federal antitrust laws.

These appeals arise from thirteen private antitrust...

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