IN RE CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LIT.

Nos. 79-3064, 79-3397.

611 F.2d 86 (1980)

In re CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. STEERING COMMITTEE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MEAD CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellants. In re CORRUGATED CONTAINER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. STEERING COMMITTEE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mandell & Wright, Stephen D. Susman, Houston, Tex., for Chairman of Steering Committee.

Sullivan & Cromwell, William R. Norfolk, James E. Tyrrell, New York City, for Crown Zellerbach Corp.

Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott, Ray C. Stoner, Michael R. Borasky, Cloyd R. Mellott, J. Gary Kosinski, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Leslie H. Arps, New York City, for Westvaco Corp.

Charles E. Hanger, San Francisco, Cal., for Fibreboard Corp.

I. Walton Bader, White Plains, N. Y., for Three J. Farms Inc., U. S. Textile Corp., et al., South Carolina class plaintiffs, amicus curiae.

Before TJOFLAT, FAY and FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judges.


FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judge:

Defendants in the present multidistrict civil antitrust actions seek appellate review of orders of the District Court for the Southern District of Texas concerning the content of notice to absent class members in the litigation. We dismiss for lack of an appealable order.

Title 28 U.S.C. § 1291 grants jurisdiction to the courts of appeals over "final decisions" of the district courts. Defendants make no claim that...

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