IN RE COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS, ETC.

MDL No. 150 WPG.

497 F.Supp. 218 (1980)

In re COORDINATED PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

Order August 26, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert K. Corbin, Atty. Gen., Kenneth R. Reed, Chief Counsel, Antitrust Section, Asst. Atty. Gen., David B. Goldstein, Asst. Atty. Gen., Antitrust Division, Phoenix, Ariz., 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., for State of California.

Jones & Dunne, Stephen L. Dunne, San Diego, Cal., for State of Florida.

James Kirkham Johns, Chief Counsel, Antitrust Division, Salem, Or. by Michael G. Hanlon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Antitrust Division, for State of Oregon.

Slade Gorton, Atty. Gen. by Thomas L. Boeder, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Jay Uchida, Asst. Atty. Gen., Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division, State of Washington, Seattle, Wash., for State of Washington.

Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, Otis Pratt Pearsall, John A. Donovan, Philip H. Curtis, New York City, and Donald A. Bright, Howard S. Fredman, Barbara A. Hindin, General Litigation Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., and Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, Ronald C. Redcay, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Atlantic Richfield Co.

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Adlai S. Hardin, Jr., New York City, for defendant Amerada Hess Corp.

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, Robert G. Russell, Jr., Paul B. Wells, San Diego, Cal., for Cities Service Company-Cities Service Oil Co.

Latham & Watkins, Fredric J. Zepp, John D. Demorest, Los Angeles, Cal., and Tom Burton, Bruce Merrill, General Attys., Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Co.

McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Philip K. Verleger, David A. Destino, Lisa C. Woods, John C. Mueller, Los Angeles, Cal., and C. Kenneth Roberts, John Chiles, James A. Drexler, Houston, Tex., and Rosemary Stein, New York City, for defendant Exxon Corp.

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

John E. Bailey, Harry P. Davis, Jr., Joan B. Oxford, George E. Jarvis, Law Dept., Houston, Tex., for defendant Gulf Oil Company-U.S.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine by Andrew J. Kilcarr, Washington, D.C., Charles F. Rice, New York City, Vincent Tricarico, Maureen O'Bryon, Washington, D.C., and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton by Don T. Hibner, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Mobil Oil Corp.

Sullivan & Cromwell, John Dickey, Richard Menaker, New York City, and Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, John H. Brinsley, Catherine H. 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.

Howrey & Simon, William Simon, William O'Brien, Washington, D. C., for defendant Shell Oil Co.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Richard J. MacLaury, Robert P. Taylor, Robert A. Mittelstaedt, David C. Stegall, San Francisco Cal., for Standard Oil Company of California.

M. J. Keating, Chicago, Ill., and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Oliver F. Green, Jr., 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, Radnor, Pa., and Pepper, Hamilton & Sheetz, John G. Harkins, Philadelphia, Pa., for Sun Oil Co.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION REGARDING STANDING AND ILLINOIS BRICK

WILLIAM P. GRAY, District Judge.

The states of Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon and Washington have brought actions against several major oil companies, alleging violations of federal and state antitrust laws. These cases have been consolidated in this court for pretrial proceedings. The defendants have moved to dismiss certain portions of the complaints on the grounds that the plaintiffs lack...

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