IN RE COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS, ETC.

M.D.L. No. 150 WPG.

502 F.Supp. 1092 (1980)

In re COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

November 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert K. Corbin, Atty. Gen., Kenneth R. Reed, Chief Counsel, Antitrust Section, David B. Goldstein, Asst. Atty. Gen., Antitrust Div., Phoenix, Ariz., and Furth, Fahrner & Wong, Kirk A. McKinney, Richard S. E. Johns, San Francisco, Cal., for State of Arizona.

George Deukmejian, Atty. Gen., by Michael Ivan Spiegel, Wayne M. Liao, William S. Clark, Deputy Attys. Gen., Dept. of Justice, State of California, San Francisco, Cal., and Gary James, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, State of California, Los Angeles, Cal., for State of California.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., by Bill L. Bryant, Jr., Jerome W. Hoffman, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, Fla., Jones & Dunne, Stephen L. Dunne, San Diego, Cal., for State of Florida.

James Kirkham Johns, Chief Counsel, Antitrust Div., Salem, Or., for State of Oregon.

Slade Gorton, Atty. Gen. by Thomas L. Boeder, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., John R. Ellis, Jay Uchida, Asst. Attys. Gen., Seattle, Wash., for State of Washington.

Blecher, Collins & Hoecker, Maxwell M. Blecher, Gary W. Hoecker, Martin J. Trupiano, Brian James Hennigan, Candace E. Carlo, Los Angeles, Cal., for City of Long Beach.

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Stanton R. Koppel, San Francisco, Cal., and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Adlai S. Hardin, Jr., Sharon W. Lindsay, Edward I. Handelman, New York City, for defendant Amerada Hess Corp.

Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, Otis Pratt Pearsall, John A. Donovan, Philip H. Curtis, Melinda J. Roberts, New York City, and Donald A. Bright, Associate Gen. Counsel, Howard S. Fredman, Barbara A. Hindin, Thomas H. Reilly, Los Angeles, Cal., and Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, Ronald C. Redcay, Paul M. Smith, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Atlantic Richfield Co.

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, Robert G. Russell, Jr., Paul B. Wells, San Diego, Cal., and Russell H. Smith, Darrell A. Kelsey, Tulsa, Okl., for Cities Service Company-Cities Service Oil Co.

Latham & Watkins, Max Gillam, Fredric J. Zepp, Jon D. Demorest, Carl E. Witschy, Los Angeles, Cal., and Tom Burton, Bruce Merrill, Houston, Tex., for Conoco, Inc.

McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Philip A. Verleger, David A. Destino, Lisa C. Woods, John C. Mueller, Gregory R. McClintock, Michael A. Morris, Los Angeles, Cal., and C. Kenneth Roberts, John Chiles, James A. Drexler, George F. Safi, Scott Lansdown, Houston, Tex., and Rosemary Stein, New York City, for defendant Exxon Corp.

Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Christopher J. Collins, Robert A. Cohen, New York City, and Philip J. Englund, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Getty Oil Co.

John E. Bailey, Harry P. Davis, Jr., Joan B. Oxford, Houston, Tex., and Anderson, Granger & Nagels, Kenton C. Granger, Overland Park, Kan., and George E. Jarvis, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Gulf Oil Company—U. S.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Leisure, Washington, D. C., Andrew J. Kilcarr, Charles F. Rice, Thomas Trowbridge, Donald L. Clarke, New York City, Vincent Tricarrico, Maureen O'Bryon, Washington, D. C., Daniel Bukovac, New York City, and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Don T. Hibner, Jr., Charles W. McCoy, Los Angeles, Cal., Charles B. Straus, III, New York City, for defendant Mobil Oil Corp.

Sullivan & Cromwell, Richard Menaker, John Dickey, New York City, and Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, John H. Brinsley, Robert M. Mitchell, Catherine Hunt Ruddy, Los Angeles, Cal., and Phillips Law Department, Neal Lehman, Bartlesville, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn & Rossi, Lawrence A. Cox, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Powerine Oil.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Richard J. MacLaury, Anthony P. Brown, Philip L. Judson, James L. Wanvig, Mary B. Cranston, Robert P. Taylor, Robert A. Mittelstaedt, W. Jeffrey Schmidt, David C. Stegall, Mary Kay Sheridan, San Francisco, Cal., for Standard Oil Company of California.

M. J. Keating, Chicago, Ill., and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Oliver F. Green, Jr., Robert S. Span, Los Angeles, Cal., for Standard Oil Company (Indiana).

J. King Rosendale, Cleveland, Ohio, and Payne, Hilgendorff, Morehouse & Shafer, Paul C. Shafer, Jr., Fairfield, Conn., for Standard Oil Company (Ohio).

Robert M. Dubbs, Andrew Derman, Radnor, Pa., and Pepper, Hamilton & Sheefs, John G. Harkins, Joseph Zulli, Patricia Burrall, Philadelphia, Pa., for Sun Oil Co.

R. D. Wilson, White Plains, N. Y., and Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, Barry Willner, New York City, and Sullivan, Jones & Archer, Robert L. Simmons, Richard W. Page, Christopher Q. Britton, William D. Hughes, San Diego, Cal., and Leslie C. Randall, Los Angeles, Cal., for Texaco, Inc.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, John Sparks, William J. "Zak" Taylor, Paul T. Dye, San Francisco, Cal., and Harold E. Zahner, Los Angeles, Cal., for Union Oil Co.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

WILLIAM P. GRAY, District Judge.

In these cases, which charge major oil companies with having conspired to violate the antitrust laws of the United States, the plaintiffs (Attorneys General of several states) currently are in process of noticing the depositions of employees and retired employees of the defendant corporations. It often happens that when such a prospective deponent receives a subpoena for his deposition, or otherwise...

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