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IN RE BEEF INDUSTRY ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Nos. 78-3345, 78-3346 and 79-1010.

607 F.2d 167 (1979)

In re BEEF INDUSTRY ANTITRUST LITIGATION, M. D. L. Docket No. 248. MEAT PRICE INVESTIGATORS ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS, INC., and Farr Farms Company and Farr Feeders, Inc., Defendants-Appellants. Darrell CAMERON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS, INC., and Farr Farms Company and Farr Feeders, Inc., Defendants-Appellants. Don LUDVIGSON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS, INC., and Farr Farms Company and Farr Feeders, Inc., Defendants-Appellants. In re BEEF INDUSTRY ANTITRUST LITIGATION, M. D. L. No. 248. MEAT PRICE INVESTIGATORS ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs, v. IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS, INC., Defendant-Appellant, v. SPENCER FOODS, INC., Defendant-Appellee. Darrell CAMERON et al., Plaintiffs, v. IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS, INC., Defendant-Appellant, v. SPENCER FOODS, INC., Defendant-Appellee. Don LUDVIGSON et al., Plaintiffs, v. IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS, INC., Defendant-Appellant, v. SPENCER FOODS, INC., Defendant-Appellee. In re BEEF INDUSTRY ANTITRUST LITIGATION, M. D. L. No. 248. Don LUDVIGSON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS, INC. and MBPXL Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 21, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Witherspoon, Aikin & Langley, Donald L. Davis, James W. Witherspoon, Hereford, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees in No. 78-3345.

Charles T. Newton, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Farr Farms Co., et al.

Briggs & Morgan, Edward C. Stringer, Peter W. Sipkins, St. Paul, Minn., for defendant-appellee in No. 78-3346.

Stephen D. Susman, Houston, Tex., amicus curiae, for plaintiffs in In re Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 310.

R. Clifford Potter, Chicago, Ill., amicus curiae, for Boise Cascade Corp.

Leslie H. Arps, New York City, amicus curiae, for Westvaco.

Freeman, Rothe, Freeman & Salzman, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant in No. 79-1010.

Edward W. Rothe, James T. Malysiak, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants in all cases.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon, John C. Dods, James T. Newsom, Kansas City, Mo., for MBPXL Corp.

Hawkins & Norris, Des Moines, Iowa for plaintiff-appellee in No. 79-1010.

Glenn L. Norris, Des Moines, Iowa, Cochrane & Bresnahan, John A. Cochrane, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiffs-appellees in Nos. 78-3345 and 79-1010.

Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates, Robert J. Geniesse, Roger E. Podesta, New York City, for Flavorland Ind., Inc.

Before WISDOM, AINSWORTH and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 21, 1979.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

These three appeals involve the "packer" side of the Beef Industry Antitrust Litigation; that is, they are appeals in suits by cattlemen against beef processors.1 The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation assigned these three cases to the Northern District of Texas for consolidated or coordinated pretrial proceedings with the "retailer" cases...

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