IN RE URANIUM ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Nos. 79-1427, 79-1502, 79-1641, 79-2004 and 79-2318 to 79-2321.

617 F.2d 1248 (1980)

In re URANIUM ANTITRUST LITIGATION. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RIO ALGOM LIMITED, Rio Algom Corporation, Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Limited, RTZ Services Limited, Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation, Conzinc Rio Tinto of Australia Limited, Mary Kathleen Uranium Limited, Pancontinental Mining Limited, Queensland Mines Limited, Nuclear Fuels Corporation, Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa, Limited, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals Corporation, Denison Mines Limited, Denison Mines (U.S.) Incorporated, Noranda Mines Limited, Gulf Oil Corporation, Gulf Minerals Canada Limited, Kerr-McGee Corporation, the Anaconda Company, Getty Oil Company, Utah International Inc., Phelps Dodge Corporation, Western Nuclear, Inc., Homestake Mining Company, Federal Resources Corporation, Pioneer Nuclear, Inc., Atlas Corporation, Reserve Oil and Minerals Corporation, United Nuclear Corporation, and Atlas Alloys, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith F. Bode, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for appellant, Rio Algom.

Carl J. Schuck, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant, Getty Oil Co.

Jonathan G. Bunge, Chicago, Ill., for appellant Gulf Oil Corp.

Jeffrey N. Cole, Jeffrey N. Cole, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for appellant, Atlas Alloys, Inc.

William J. T. Brown and Samuel W. Murphy, New York City, for appellee, Westinghouse Corp.

Before SWYGERT, BAUER and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

In October of 1976, plaintiff-appellee, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, filed a complaint alleging anti-trust violations against twenty-nine foreign and domestic uranium producers. All of the defendants were duly served with process; however, nine foreign defendants chose not to appear.1 On February 2, 1977, the District Court entered defaults pursuant to Rule 55(a) of the Federal Rules of...

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