LEFRAK v. ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL CO.

No. 74 C 1700.

487 F.Supp. 808 (1980)

Samuel J. LEFRAK et al., Plaintiffs, v. ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

January 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Berger & Montague, P. C. by David Berger, Stanley R. Wolfe, Philadelphia, Pa., Jerome Edelman, P. C. by Jerome Edelman, Brooklyn, N. Y., Richard S. Lefrak, Forest Hills, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

White & Case by Thomas Kiernan, Frederic S. Newman, New York City, for Arabian American Oil Co.

Sullivan & Cromwell by Robert M. Osgood, Kenneth M. Bialo, New York City, for Exxon Corp.

Lord, Day & Lord by Gordon B. Spivack, Thomas D. Brislin, New York City, for Standard Oil Co. of California.

Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell & Weyher by William F. Sondericker, New York City, for Asiatic Petroleum Corp. (renamed Scallop Corp.).

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine by Sanford M. Litvack, New York City, for Mobil Oil Corp.

Lawrence R. Jerz, White Plains, N. Y., Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler by Randolph S. Sherman, New York City, for Texaco, Inc.

Kissam, Halpin & Genovese by Anthony Genovese, Joel H. Blumkin, New York City, for Gulf Oil Co.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

COSTANTINO, District Judge.

In 1974, the plaintiffs, a group of home heating oil consumers (collectively referred to as "Lefrak"), brought a civil antitrust action to recover treble damages for overcharges due to price-fixing by the defendants, the major oil suppliers in the United States (collectively referred to as "Aramco").1 Over a period of five years, the court oversaw a series of complicated...

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